Start Date: April 19, 2002 End Date: July 30, 2004 Ceiling Price: $100,000 Contract Number: LAG-I-00-99-00017-00

	PROJECT OBJECTIVES
	CURRENT STATUS

The Kenya IWRM project (referred to as the ‘Water Activity’) was designed to be the Early Implementation Action of phase 2 of the KCMI. The Water Activity will be used to catalyze both interest and effort amongst the various stakeholders in the Mombasa District and South Coast. The Water Activity will select pilot sites at: schools, clinics, and homes (of members belonging to well-organized community-based organizations) that are good candidates for rainwater harvesting. The selected sites will then receive technical and financial assistance through the CDA for constructing rainwater-harvesting systems to provide potable water for the stakeholders in the building. Site selection for the systems will be done with replication and constituency building in mind. The CDA, as the lead local implementor of the Water Activity, will build a number of systems, of different sizes and using different technologies such that they can subsequently be adopted and replicated by other stakeholders in Mombasa District and South Coast areas. The relatively low cost and rapid construction process for the rainwater harvesting systems will provide a safe potable water supply as well as a physical, tangible benefit that is readily understood by other beneficiaries.

While recognizing the vital importance of water quality problems and their relationship to potable water supply, the proposed early implementation action is not sufficiently funded to properly tackle this problem directly. Instead, it will initiate public education and awareness, promoting dialogue among key stakeholders (especially with the Integrated Water Resources Management Technical Working Group), and develop a small number of demonstration sites where enhanced sanitation technologies and practices can be modeled, field-tested, and evaluated.

The Water Activity has already begun the initial stage of reconnaissance, preparation of site selection criteria, and identification of appropriate technologies. The next step is to gain consensus for the Water Activity from the KCMI partners and present it to stakeholders and multiplying agents throughout the region. The Water Activity will be amongst the first implementation activities of phase two of the KCMI, and will provide a focus for stakeholders to begin recognizing their role in alleviating some of their water supply and sanitation problems.