Kenya: Community Management for Sustainable Water Supply, Sanitation & Hygiene.

About ASPM.

The Africa School of Project Management (ASPM) was established in the year 2000 in Kenya. The school was formed to address capacity building needs among development partners, donor organizations, Government agencies, and International and private sector firms in Africa.

The school has been pivotal in capacity building in South Sudan, South Africa, Botswana, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Congo, Somalia, Gambia, Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda. The school has trained over 12,000 staffs.

Course Outline.

On successful completion of this option students will be able to:

• Design and implement appropriate and sustainable solutions to water supply and sanitation for small, rural communities in particular in developing countries, with due regard to the technical, social and institutional constraints imposed by the surrounding environment.
• Assess water supply and sanitation needs for communities in villages and refugee camp
• Plan and implement water source evaluation and development programmes, including lowcost well drilling
• facilitate community participation and management projects and programmes
• Design, cost and implement small sustainable water distribution, storage and treatment systems
• Evaluate the health impacts of community water supply and sanitation systems.

Main Modules 1. Surface and Groundwater Hydrology
Module Outcomes  Understand and apply the basic hydraulic principles of static and moving water.
 Measure point and estimate areal rainfall. Estimate potential evapotranspiration from weather data and understand the relationship between actual and potential evapotranspiration.  Select and apply appropriate flow measurement techniques for different types of watercourses.  Describe and conceptualize the occurrence and movement of groundwater and apply.

2.**Water and Wastewater Treatment for Development**
Module Outcomes  Describe different water quality parameters and how they are measured.  Describe the basic principles of drinking water treatment and how these can be used at different scales including, household, community and municipal.  Evaluate simple methods of wastewater treatment and how these are being applied to treating conventional waterborne sewage as well as in fecal sludge management.  Assess how different treatment technologies might be applicable in different contexts.

3.**Health, Hygiene and Sanitation**
Module Outcomes  Identify the principal transmission routes of water and excreta-related diseases  Critically assess the disease risks associated with water and excreta-related behavior  Design a basic programme for hygiene evaluation and promotion  Select, design and evaluate sanitation systems for a specific situations

4.Innovation for Sustainable Projects & Cities
Module Outcomes  Evaluate new technologies and approaches that are currently being piloted in projects & cities for water, sanitation, drainage and solid waste management, including how these services are paid for and reported on. Outline governance structures for water and sanitation for the poor in cities  Describe the water-energy-food nexus as it applies to cities.

5.Management and Governance for Water and Sanitation
 Describe the economic and social drivers for the effective, equitable and efficient management of water and sanitation services  Explain the different institutional models for water and sanitation services, understanding strengths and weaknesses in different contexts  Assess the principle cost-categories for sustainable water and sanitation services, with respect to capital and recurrent costs  Evaluate different governance strategies for water and sanitation services, including centralisation, decentralization and the appropriate use of regulation (or other accountability measures)

6 Emergency Water Supply and Environmental Sanitation
 Differentiate and describe the characteristics of different types of emergency situation and phases  Discuss the main issues surrounding logistics and management of emergency situations  Evaluate, select and design appropriate emergency water supply including its treatment  Design & establish measures to address public health issues in emergencies and minimise risks of epidemics: environmental sanitation, solid waste and vector control measures. Evaluate the need for public information and coordination with other sectors to ensure basic needs are met.  Evaluate alternative points of view and demonstrate an ability to summarize clearly to others  Organize, manage and execute an assignment to achieve specified objectives within a time-frame.

7.Water Source Engineering.
Module Outcomes  Design piped water distribution systems in rural areas of lower-income countries, specifying appropriate pipe sizes and materials, and pumps configuration when necessary Differentiate the exploration and investigation techniques available for groundwater studies. Plan the design features of protected springs and infiltration galleries, and carry out detailed design of wells and boreholes.  Propose sites for on-stream and off-stream water storage stuctures; produce outline designs for small earth embankment dams; and identify basic construction techniques and maintenance tasks

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