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National Rural Water Supply, Sanitation and Irrigation Programme (Ru-WatSIP)

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Table of Contents

Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................. 3

I. Hygiene Promotion Unit .......................................................................................................... 4

Project Implementation Progress ....................................................................................................... 4

Project Implementation Challenges .................................................................................................... 5

Risks and Issues ................................................................................................................................... 5

Plan for the Next Month .................................................................................................................... 5

II. Ministry of Finance (MoF) Funded-Projects ......................................................................... 6

Projects Implementation Progress ...................................................................................................... 6


Risks and Issue .................................................................................................................................... 7


III. Project Implementation Unit .............................................................................................. 8

Project Implementation Progress ....................................................................................................... 8


Risks and Issue .................................................................................................................................... 8


IV. Water Quality Control Unit .............................................................................................. 10

Project Implementation Progress ..................................................................................................... 10

Project Implementation Challenges .................................................................................................. 10

Risks and Issues ................................................................................................................................. 10

Plan for the Next Month .................................................................................................................. 10

V. Hydrogeology & Geophysics Unit ......................................................................................... 11

Project Implementation Unit ............................................................................................................ 11

Project Implementation Challenges .................................................................................................. 11

Risks and Issue .................................................................................................................................. 11

Plan for the Next Month .................................................................................................................. 12

VI. Financial Updates ............................................................................................................. 12

VII. Outlook ................................................................................................................................... 12

VIII. Annexes .................................................................................................................................. 13

Table 1: HPU Activities in October 2015............................................................................................... 5

Table 2: Examined water sources coordinates ..................................................................................... 11

Table 3: Financial Updates .................................................................................................................... 12

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Abbreviation Key

ANSA Afghanistan National Standards Authority

BSFs Bio Sand Filters

CDCs Community Development Councils

CHWs Community Health Workers

CLTS Community-Led Total Sanitation

DACAAR Danish Committee for Aid to Afghan Refugee

DDAs District Development Assemblies

FGCC Farzad Gustaresh Construction Company

FHAGs Family Health Action Groups

G&H Geophysics and Hydrogeology

GIS Geophysical Information System

HPU Hygiene Promotion Unit

IDPs Internally Displaced Persons

M&E Monitoring and Evaluation

MoEW Ministry of Energy and Water

MoF Ministry of Finance

MoPH Ministry of Public Health

MRRD Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development

NCA Norwegian Church Aid

OD Open Defecation

ODF Open Defecation Free

PRRDs Provincial Rural Rehabilitation Departments

Ru-WatSIP Rural Water Supply, Sanitation and Irrigation Programme

RWP Rolling Working Plan

UNICEF United Nations Children’s Fund

WASH Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

WHO World Health Organization

WQC Water Quality Control

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Executive Summary

In October 2015, the Hygiene Promotion Unit (HPU) of national Rural Water Supply,

Sanitation and Irrigation Programme (Ru-WatSIP) has gotten the communities build at

least 168 new latrines and improve 962 others in Badghis, Helmand Kunar and Urozgan

provinces.

Two MoF-funded water supply projects including one pipe scheme in Badakhshan and

one pipe scheme in Parwan provinces have been handed over to the communities for

exploitation.

In the course of this month, at least eight UNICEF- Funded Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

(WASH) projects in Herat, Farah, Badghis, Ghor, Khost, Paktia and Bamyan provinces

have been completed and handed over to the communities for exploitation.

The Water Quality Control (WQC) unit has collected and analyzed two samples, taken

from a deep well and a pipe scheme, in Kabul province.

During this month, the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) unit of Ru-WatSIP has handed

over two water supply projects consisting of two pipe schemes in Badakhshan and Parwan

provinces after they were inspected and approved.

The Geophysics and Hydrogeology (G&H) unit of Ru-WatSIP has completed the data

interpretation and analysis as well as the geophysical investigation final report of 11 sites

in Balkh, Baghlan and Kabul provinces.

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I. Hygiene Promotion Unit

Project Implementation Progress

The Hygiene Promotion Unit (HPU) of Ru-WatSIP is implementing Community-Led Total Sanitation

(CLTS) approach in the rural communities of a number of Afghanistan provinces. CLTS is a non-

subsidiary driven approach, used to mobilize the communities for elimination of Open Defecation

(OD) from villages and building and utilizing household latrines for defecation purposes.

In October 2015, the CLTS team was launching this approach in Badghis, Helmand, Kunar, Urozgan

and Zabul provinces. In the course of CLTS implementation, during this month, at least 168 new

latrines have been built and at least 962 others have been improved by the community people in Qala-

e-Naw and Abkamri districts of Badghis province, Nawa and Nahri Seraj districts of Helmand province,

Asad Abad and Noorgul districts of Kunar province and Trinkot and Chorah districts of Urozgan

provinces. At least 7,910 persons are benefitting from these newly built and improved latrines.

Before the CLTS approach implementation there, people used to defecate in the open areas because

they either lacked latrines or have been unaware from the detriments of OD. But as soon as CLTS

approach was implemented there, they were encouraged to have latrines in their own homes and use

it for defection purposes. Besides, they were enlightened about detriments of OD and its role in

diseases prevalence.

In addition, the HPU has begun CLTS programme in 25 new villages in the aforementioned province

during this month, and has successfully conducted the triggering stage, which is the initial step towards

CLTS implementation.

For further details, please refer to the table below:

S/N Provinces Districts

To

tal #

of

CL

TS

Villa

ges

To

tal #

of

ho

use

s in

the v

illa

ges

To

tal #

of

Tri

ggeri

ng

To

tal #

of

Latr

ines

new

ly b

uilt

To

tal #

of

Latr

ines

imp

rove

d

To

tal #

of

FH

AG

mem

bers

tra

ined

To

tal #

of

Co

mm

un

ity

eld

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tra

ined

To

tal O

DF

Veri

fied

Villa

ges

To

tal O

DF

Cert

ifie

d

Villa

ges

1 Badghis Qala-e-Naw 50 2,874 0 34 195 0 0 0 0

Ab Kamari 50 2,986 0 37 149 0 0 0 0

2 Helmand Lashkargah 20 1,150 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

NahriSeraj 50 2,580 0 4 173 0 0 0 0

Nawa 30 1,588 0 36 224 0 0 0 0

3 Kunar Asad Abad 50 3,135 4 39 165 0 0 0 0

Noorgal 50 2,809 3 9 31 0 0 0 0

4 Urozgan Tarinkot 24 1,526 3 5 13 0 0 0 0

Chorah 23 1,489 3 4 12 0 0 0 0

5 Zabul Qalat 70 4,732 6 0 0 0 0 0 0

Shahr e Safa 70 4,107 6 0 0 0 0 0 0

Total 487 28,976 25 168 962 0 0 0 0

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Table 1: HPU Activities in October 2015

Project Implementation Challenges

Risks and Issues

Security constraints in all abovementioned provinces

Late arrival of confirmed budget

Lack of qualified staff at the provincial level

Lack of budget in hand

Plan for the Next Month

Follow up of all those villages which have been verified ODF;

Carrying out the certifying process at ODF villages;

Conducting hygiene education workshops for the community elders of the CLTS

implementing areas;

Conducting hygiene education sessions in the CLTS implementing areas for female

Community Health Workers (CHWs) and Family Health Action Groups (FHAGs);

Monitoring the field activities;

Conducting CLTS refresher and hygiene education trainings for the CLTS teams in

provinces;

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II. Ministry of Finance (MoF) Funded-Projects

Projects Implementation Progress

During October 2015, out of 54 MoF newly-planned projects including water supply

networks, deep wells and shallow wells, a number of these projects have been contracted

with related Community Development Councils (CDCs) and others have been sent to

procurement department for bidding process.

Apart of that, the following tasks have been carried out during this month:

A pipe scheme project in Rahim Abad village of Faiz Abad in Badakhshan province is completed and handed over to the community. This project costs AFN (3,162,048)

and was funded by MoF. Upon completion of this project, around (400) families could

get access to safe drinking water.

A pipe scheme project in Zulfiqar village of center district of Parwan province was

completed and handed over to the community. This project costs AFN (1,340,745)

and was funded by MoF. Upon completion of this project, around 100 families can get

access to safe drinking water.

All technical and financial documents for Qasaba pipe scheme project was prepared and sent to finance department for its last installment.

A project, covers the construction of four deep wells, was contracted with Sharak

Kochi Abad Haji Monji CDC in Bagrami district of Kabul province.

All technical and financial documents for four deep wells project of Sharak Kochi Abad

Haji Monji was prepared and sent to finance department for its first installment.

A project of 10 bore wells was contracted with Tawachi CDC in Andkhoy district of Faryab province.

A project of 12 bore wells was contracted with Popalzai CDC in Dawlat Abad district

of Faryab province.

All technical and financial documents of a 10-bore well project of Tawachi was prepared and sent to finance department for its first installment.

All technical and financial documents of a 12-deep wells project of Popal Zai was

prepared and sent to finance department for its first installment.

A project of six rain water reservoir was contracted with Abshara Mohammad Zai DarweshSha Khan CDC in Moqur district of Badghis province.

All technical and financial documents of a six -rain water reservoir project of Abshara

Mohammad Zai DarweshSha Khan CDC was prepared and sent to finance department

for its first installment.

A project of two bore wells is contracted with ShahrakAshab Baba CDC in Mohammad Agha district of Logar province.

All technical and financial documents for two bore wells of ShahrakAshab Baba was

prepared and sent to finance department for its first installment.

A project of 30 bore wells is contracted with Padkhab Shana CDC in Pole Alam district of Logar province.

All technical and financial documents for 30 bore wells of Padkhab Shana was prepared

and sent to finance department for its first installment.

A pipe scheme project in Guzare Haji Salim village of Faiz Abad in Badakhshan is

contracted with Farzad Gustaresh Construction Company (FGCC).

All technical documents and design of one pipe scheme project in Inch village and one pipe scheme in Badgahak village of Faizabad distrct of Badakhshan province, and a pipe

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scheme project in Gonbad village of Yakawlang district of Bamyan province are

prepared and have been sent to procurement department for bidding process.


Risks and Issue

No risk or issue has been reported during this month.


Handover of Ghazni pipe scheme project;

Handover of pipe scheme project in Chagan village of Deh Salah district of Baghlan

province;

Singing contracts of new projects.

Prior to the water supply pipe scheme in Zulfiqar village in the center of Parwan province, community people collected rain water and used it for drinking

and cooking

Community people happily taking water from the water supply pipe scheme in Zulfiqar village in the center of Parwan province, recently

handed over by M&E unit/Ru-WatSIP

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III. Project Implementation Unit


Based on the Rolling Work Plan (RWP) of 2015-16 signed between the Ministry of Rural

Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

for implementation of Water supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) activities, capacity

building, Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) etc. UNICEF is supporting Ru-WatSIP/MRRD to

implement WASH activities and provide WASH facilities for the rural inhabitants throughout

the country.

Currently, Ru-WatSIP with support from UNICEF WASH section has been implementing a

number of projects in different provinces of Afghanistan which include boring of new wells,

repairing of non-functional wells and pipe schemes, construction of pipe schemes, establishing

latrine marts production centers, conducting hygiene and sanitation awareness programmes,

provision of safe drinking water for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), construction and

distribution of Bio Sand Filters (BSFs) and equipping water sources with solar pump

systems, distribution of water purification tablets, distribution of hygiene kits and monitoring

and controlling of water quality.

During this month, in north region four WASH projects completed: these projects include

construction of 10 bore wells with installation of hand pumps in Cluster Marghab village in

Shabarghan city of Jowzjan province; construction of one water reservoir with water

distribution and solar systems in Rahmania mosque in Nahri Shahi district of Balkh province;

construction of three bore wells with installation of hand pumps in Khamab district and

construction of four bore wells with installation of hand pumps in Qarqeen district of Jawzjan

province.

In center region, two WASH projects have been completed; these projects consist of

construction of one bore well in Shekhan village of Baraki Barak district of Logar province and

construction of a pipe scheme (phase 2) in Dokani village in center of Bamyan province

In addition, 20 bore wells in different villages in Bost district of Helmand province and five

bore wells with hand pump installation in Qalia Mirza and Qalia Guljan villages in Behsood

district of Nangarhar province have completed.

To sum up, during October 2015, a total number of eight UNICEF-supported WASH projects

have been completed and handed over to the community for exploitation. These projects

cost AFN 6,678,964 and upon its completion, safe drinking water is provided for almost 2,075

households. For further details, refer to Annex I at the end of this report.

Apart of this, 15 new WASH projects have been contracted between MRRD and District

Development Assemblies (DDAs)/CDC’s in different provinces throughout the country. For

details, please refer to Annex II at the end of the report.


Risks and Issue

Delay in the payments;

Low technical capacity of Provincial Rural Rehabilitation Departments (PRRDs);

Security constrains;

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Monitoring and evaluation of ongoing projects in Sari Pul, Nangarhar, Kunar, Wardak,

Paktika and Jowzjan provinces;

Handover of completed projects (if any);

Preparing payments and liquidation documents and submitting them to UNICEF for

further process;

Processing of final payment documents to UNICEF WASH section and regional offices.

Community People happily taking water from a water supply pipe scheme in Dokani village in center of Bamyan province

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IV. Water Quality Control Unit


During October 2015, the Water Quality Control (WQC) unit of national Ru-WatSIP has

collected and analyzed two water samples, taken from water sources in Kabul province.

Among those water samples, one water sample was taken from the water supply scheme

located on Tapa-e Sadat 315 area in eleven district and another water sample was taken from

a deep well located in Kharoti village of Mir Bachakoot district of Kabul province which are

tabulated below.

After these samples were tested and analyzed in Ru-WatSIP laboratory, the quantity of

physical/chemical and bacteriological parameters in these two water samples was less than

the permissible limit of Afghanistan national drinking water quality standards and World

Health Organization (WHO) water quality guidelines. Therefore, its water is safe for drinking

and are not risky for health.

In addition, during this, Ru-WatSIP’s laboratory staff had a field trip to Parwan, Baghlan and

Takhar provinces to collect water samples from Ghorband district of Parwan province; Bagh-

e Choqurak village of Pule Khomri city of Baghlan province; Farkhar and Namakab districts of

Takhar province. The samples have been collected and its results and details will be published

in the upcoming month.

Besides, during this month, Ru-WatSIP’s laboratory staff did recalibratation/installation of

electrical conductivity pH meter and flame photometer and made it fully functional for

operation and prepared four kind of mediums for cultivate of Coliform Bacteria.

1. Pepton water Medium, 500 Ml.

2. Single strength MacConkey Medium, 500 Ml.

3. Double strength MacConkey Medium, 500 Ml.

4. Brilliant Green Bile Lactose Medium, 500 Ml.


Risks and Issues

During this month, no risks or issue has been reported.


1. Based on to the Quality Control Mitigation Plan to harmonize procedures and

standard documentation of water quality Lab:

a. Harmonizing the existing equipment/chemicals and staff qualification by water

quality technical group;

b. Preparing checklist for water sampling and quality sampling systems;

c. Preparing and editing Water Samples Collection Manual and sampling form, and

d. Harmonizing and editing the water quality result sheet.

2. Participating in one technical workshop which will be held by Afghanistan National

Standards Authority (ANSA) and Ministry of Public Health (MoPH)

3. Analysis the sample of water which were taken from Parwan, Baghlan and Takhar

provinces.

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Table 2: Examined water sources coordinates P

rovin

ce

Districts Villages Location

Sam

ple

s

co

de

Source of Water

Kabul Eleven

district

Tapa-e Sadat

315

Beside

HazratAyob

Mosque

015-193 Water supply

scheme

Kabul Mir Bacha

koot Kharooti

ShahrakRejal

Barjasta

015-194 Deep well

V. Hydrogeology & Geophysics Unit

Project Implementation Unit

During October 2015, the H&G unit of Ru-WatSIP has reported its work progress as below:

Data interpretation and analysis including geophysical investigations final report preparation of 11 sites at Mazar-e-Sharif, Baghlan and Kabul provinces have been

completed.

Hydro-geological observation survey and data collection for two wells site selection

at Malikzadaha village in Astailf district of Kabul province have been completed.

Monitoring of well development/cleaning in coordination with implementation department of RuWatSIP of one well located at Sari Khotali Khairkhana have been

done.

Monitoring of well drilling activities and lithological samples analysis of one deep well

located at Masjid Hazrat Ali in Haesa-e-2 of KhairKhana is completed.

In addition, in the course of this month, the H&G unit three hydro-geologists and two

geophysicists participated in three workshops: these workshops include Geophysical Borehole

Logging Interpretation of Data, Pumping Test Data Interpretation and Advanced Online GIS Maps

which were organized by NORPLAN.

The aims of these workshops were to show the geophysicist, hydrologists and those who

work in this field various methods of logging systems and its advantages as well as to review

the online GIS mapping system and its utility.


Risks and Issue

During the month of October 2015, no challenge has been reported by the G&H unit.

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Conducting geophysical investigation of one site located at Arqkishlak village of Khwaja

Bahawodin district, Takhar province.

Conducting geophysical investigation of one site located at Chaghcharan centre of

Ghor province.

VI. Financial Updates

Table 3: Financial Updates

VII. Outlook

The national Ru-WatSIP is currently working in various areas trying to provide safe potable

water, sanitation facilities and promote hygiene practices for all rural inhabitants of the

country.

During this month, national Ru-WatSIP, through a capacity building project by NORPLAN,

conducted three different workshops in the field of hydrogeology and geophysics for

geophysicists, hydro geologists and those who are being involved in this field.

These workshops include ‘Geophysical Borehole Logging Interpretation of Data’, ‘Pumping

Test Data Interpretation and Advanced Online GIS Maps’ that lasted for eight days, and

around 15 participants from Ministry of Energy and Water (MoEW), Danish Committee for

Aid to Afghan Refugee (DACAAR), Norwegian Church Aid (NCA), Kabul and Polytechnic

participated.

The workshops aimed to raise the participants’ capacity in utilizing various methods for

borehole logging, information about different types of bore logs as well as review and usage

of the online GIS maps.

Currency: US Dollar

No Projects Budget Works Operations Total

Expenditure

Utilized % Remarks

1 UNICEF 8,000,000.00 510,977

510,977

2 Badghais 0.00 0.00

3 CLTS 0.00

Grand-total

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VIII. Annexes

Region S/No Provinces District Activities Remark

Western

region

1

Herat

Karokh Construction of Pipe scheme

Zenda Jan Construction of Pipe scheme

Engil WASH in Schools

2

Farah

Shep Dara Construction of 15 wells

Center Rehabilitation of 50 wells

3 Badghis

Ab Kamari Rehabilitation of 50 wells

QaliaNaw Construction of eight wells

4

Ghor

LalSarjangal

Center Construction of 10 wells

Central

region

5 Khost Tani Construction of two Pipe scheme

6 Paktia

Ahmad Aba Construction of 13 wells

Ahmad Aba Construction of eight wells

Meta Khan Construction of 15 wells

7 Bamyan Center Construction of Pipe scheme

Center Construction of Pipe scheme

Annex 1: Completed UNICEF Funded-WASH Projects in October 2015

Region S/N

o

Province District Activities Status Remark

Northern region 1 Balkh NahriShahi Construction of reservoir

and solar system

completed

2 Jowzjan Center Construction of 10 wells completed

3 Jowzjan Qarqin Construction of four wells completed

4 Jowzjan Kham Ab Construction of three wells completed

Center region 5 Logar Baraki Barak Construction of one well completed

6 Bamyan Center Pipe scheme construction completed

Southern region 7 Helmand Bost Construction of 20 wells completed

Eastern region 8 Nangarhar Behsod Construction of five wells completed

Annex 2: Newly Contract UNICEF-Supported WASH Projects

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