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El Salvador
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519-004
USAID MISSION: El Salvador
PROGRAM TITLE: Clean Water Access (Pillar: Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade)
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE AND NUMBER: Increased Access by Rural Households to Clean Water, 519-004
STATUS: Continuing
PLANNED FY 2002 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $3,200,000 DA
PRIOR YEAR UNOBLIGATED AND FUNDING SOURCE: $0
PROPOSED FY 2003 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $4,100,000 DA
INITIAL OBLIGATION: FY 1998 ESTIMATED COMPLETION DATE: FY 2004Summary: USAID is providing access to clean water for the rural poor, especially women and children, in 18 municipalities through an integrated and environmentally sustainable approach to improving and conserving water resources. The program has three major components, including (a) institutional coordination and policy, (b) integrated water management in municipalities, and (c) citizen awareness, participation and action. USAID is providing training and technical assistance:
- to improve water source quality through environmentally sustainable agricultural practices;
- to improve performance of water delivery systems by strengthening infrastructure as well as management capacity;
- for more effective citizen actions to address water issues through public education campaigns and training; and
- for improved municipal management of water resources through training at the municipal level and promoting a coordinated approach.
Inputs, Outputs and Activities: FY 2002 Program: The program emphasizes the protection of watersheds. Protected and healthy watersheds provide natural water storage during dry periods and tend to normalize peak flows during heavy rainfalls, reducing flooding. FY 2002 DA funds will provide technical assistance and training to improved agricultural practices that involve farmer groups organized to implement reforestation, soil conservation, and ecologically friendly production methods. The number of water distribution systems that provide rural communities with access to clean water will be expanded. Demonstration projects will be carried out to promote the use of wastewater treatment and solid waste disposal through appropriate technology methods and recycling. In addition, USAID will support educational campaigns to increase citizen understanding of the causes and consequences of unclean water and the solutions for obtaining clean water. Finally, USAID will work to resolve water-related issues through organization and training efforts aimed at small community groups, municipalities, and national water agencies that will improve the ability of these entities to manage water resources. These interventions will reach an estimated 179,000 rural residents providing access to clean water. The number of actions taken to resolve water-related issues will increase to 300 from the current level of 43 demonstrating effective citizen action. Municipal government participation in the management of local water resources will facilitate the development and implementation of at least 18 municipal water resource management plans.
Planned FY 2003 Program: USAID intends to use FY 2003 DA funds to continue activities in watershed protection, potable water systems development, water education, and related community participation in the resolution of water-related issues. Those activities with measured success will continue to be supported. They may include technology demonstration projects in (a) improved agricultural practices through demonstration farms, (b) solid and liquid waste treatment, and (c) water storage reservoir irrigation. For instance, USAID may test the viability of water storage reservoirs, initially viewed primarily as a mechanism for irrigation, to provide for other uses such as potable water and energy generation.
One of the deficiencies that USAID has uncovered is the inability on the part of local operators to diagnose and repair water systems. USAID will consider support to a regional level, technical support model that will provide services to operators of rural water systems and help guarantee the sustainability of rural systems. User fees are key to this sustainability.
Performance and Results: Substantial gains have been made through activities that emphasize improved extension practices, watershed conservation, and production of high value commodities. A total of 325 demonstration farms have worked with 3,859 neighboring farms to increase the area of land conserved to almost 9,000 hectares, more than double the original end-of-activity target. In all, 50 potable water systems already have been completed, rehabilitated, or improved, serving 50% of the households in the 18 municipalities.
End products of our program include the improvement of three micro-watersheds, 5,000 farms in these watersheds using improved agricultural and environmental conservation practices, 55% of households in areas targeted by USAID with access to clean water, and 18 focus municipalities with water resource management plans.
Principal Contractors, Grantees, or Agencies: The principal prime grantee is CARE in a consortium with three local Salvadoran organizations: SalvaNatura, FUNDAMUNI-PROCAP, and SACDEL, all of which are sub-grantees. Other prime grantees include: World Vision, Catholic Relief Services, IICA Camagro, Project Concern International, and Border Development Services.
US Financing in Thousands of Dollars
519-004 Increased Access by Rural Households to Clean Water DA Through September 30, 2000 Obligations 9,851 Expenditures 3,727 Unliquidated 6,124 Fiscal Year 2001 Obligations 3,189 Expenditures 5,490 Through September 30, 2001 Obligations 13,040 Expenditures 9,217 Unliquidated 3,823 Prior Year Unobligated Funds Obligations 0 Planned Fiscal Year 2002 NOA Obligations 3,200 Total Planned Fiscal Year 2002 Obligations 3,200 Proposed Fiscal Year 2003 NOA Obligations 4,100 Future Obligations 0 Est. Total Cost 20,340
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