Community-driven water, sanitation and hygieneprogramme implementation

摘要

Engendering sustainability and programme ownership has remained a major challenge in water supplyand sanitation service-delivery within developing countries. Efforts have been made in the past to ensurethat communities are consulted and that they participate in decision-making and possibly be involved inthe course of programme implementation. This however, was not able to guarantee ownership ascommunities were often pictured at the receiving end and were only regarded as beneficiaries.Experiences from the Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Reform Programme implementation in CrossRiver State, Nigeria, have led to an upscale of community involvement in programme implementation.Within this approach, communities are viewed as key players in programme implementation as they areempowered to spearhead key aspects of programme implementation. This created opportunity for humanresources that abound within communities to be tapped with resultant improvement in programmeoutput, dynamism and resourcefulness with increased ownership and sustainability.