Project :Development of SSWICH

1. Programme 6: Water Resources Management, Development, Utilisation and Provision of Sanitation Services Progress against 2009 budgeted activities Coordination and Policy: Regulation, Strategy Formulation & Dissemination Since the beginning of this year the Ministry made significant progress in the area of coordination, policy regulation, strategy formulation and dissemination. April marked the official launching of the southern Sudan Water Policy and it is the first of its kind in Sudan. Similarly, publication of manuals and guidelines for water and sanitation facilities will be realised before the end of the year. All those achievements were made possible with help of UNICEF. Slow release of funds from MoFEP could not allow staff to travel extensively to monitor projects progress

2. Project :Development of SSWICH • OBJECTIVES :Equip fully a functional and sustainable SSWICH and train staff to run the system. • Purpose ,shall be a tool to allow access to stakeholders and collect information of distributed water Resources. • SCOPE: Develop a water &sanitation clearing house that in corporate a geo –database as instrument for monitoring, planning and generating reports. • The system will consider a wide range of information formats required to fulfil the needs of stake holders

3. SSWICH -MWRI • The ministry of water recourses and Irrigation is deeply engaged in the establishment of the MIS/Database unit which has been formally managed by Unicef WES based at Loki –Kenya since its transfer to the Ministry of water Resources and Irrigation ,the major partner is still giving support to the Unit and up here the Ministry in partnership with Unicef are still working on the final establishment of the unit through UN water commission Addis Ababa, the unit is changing from MIS/DATABASE TO SSWICH Southern Sudan Water Information Clearing House • This effort is therefore put in place to enable the database to capture more activities. • Some of the activities includes the cleaning of the Water points database through conducting water inventory in the ten states. • Other hydrological water points (Rivers ,haffirs,Dams and sudd) • Irrigation activities and constant monitoring of the Nile water level and other water catchments within the southern Sudan. • Rain gauge records will be keenly recorded to the Database for future planning . • We have done in central Equatoria state and we are planning to do in the other states. • The water inventory report of August –September 2009 of the three counties in central Equatoria state has been done; Morobo,Lainya and Kajo keji • This made us able to come up with the clear figure of what is operational up to date and the water points that are no longer functional.

4. SSWICH PLANS • SSWICH will be conducting trainings to the state database officers. • Connect them to internet so that they can assess our information for the central Database . • Conducting more water inventory to the other states . • Sharing information with the water actors /partners . • Creating fills for the hygiene and sanitation

5. Operation and maintenance • Operation, Maintenance and Provision of Water and Sanitation Facilities/Services • Only one hundred and forty boreholes were rehabilitated throughout Southern Sudan. While in Renk Irrigation scheme, 20 pumps have been serviced. • Development of Water and Sanitation Information, Monitoring and Evaluation Systems • Monitoring and evaluation went out smoothly though field visits was limited to trips supported by partners . However, routine work on running the MIS/GIS went on smoothly though the ARC View GIS software is old but we made efforts to replace it with ARC GIS 9.2.

6. Resources Mapping • Resource Mapping/Assessment, Feasibility Studies and Research • Although responsibility of running urban water supply project is under Urban Water Corporation, the ministry will liaise smooth implementation on regular basis. We sill continue to work closely with Urban water corporation and other Hydrological water points within Southern Sudan. As the Dams Implementation Unit continues with studies on possible dams' sites along Bahr el Jebel River (between Juba and Nimule) the ministry ensure smooth finalization of those studies. This will be monitored and coordinated alongside studies of the Sue Multi-purpose dam in Wau and information will be entered into the MWRI-Database.

7. Urban water information • Urban Water Supply Projects • Juba Urban Water Treatment Plant is finally rehabilitated under Sudan Emergency Transport and Infrastructure Development Programme (SETIDP) SETIDP. The water treatment plant has a capacity of 720 m³/day. The plant has been inaugurated and is now under commissioning. Challenges facing Juba Urban Water Supply are enormous, despite limited capacity of the treatment plant which could not meet needs of the ever expanding town, the existing leaky network could not even support higher surge in pressure when the new station is commissioned. However, GIBB Africa Consultants’ has finalized with leak detection operation on the distribution system but is yet to present quotation for replacement of some sections of the network.

8. Water points achievements • Progress against 2009 budgeted activities • Since January 2009 the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, through the Multi Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) implemented the following projects under its Rural Water Supply and Sanitation project (RWSSP) Southern Sudan: • Four Small Water Distribution system (SWDS) constructed in Yei, Nyang, Tonj and Pagak and are officially inaugurated/commissioned; the last one being the two SWDS in Yei River Town. • Contract for construction of 647 new boreholes issued to UNICEF, NGOs and private companies since last year and the RWSS personnel are closely monitoring its implementation according to phases prescribed therein. • Commencement of major water supply systems installations last dry season e.g. 130 boreholes and 5 SWDSs by UNICEF, 51 boreholes, 2 hafiirs (Jonglei State) and 8 SWDSs by PACT