Transcript STRATEGIC HUMANITARIAN SERVICES SHUMAS

STRATEGIC HUMANITARIAN
SERVICES
(SHUMAS)
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INTRODUCTION
SHUMAS is a Development Non Governmental
Organisation involved in Integrated Sustainable
Rural Development with the aim to improve
lives, reduce poverty and empower people to
realise the fullest of their potentials. To achieve
this, SHUMAS has 8 programs which include
amongst others the water and sanitation
program
WATER AND SANITATION
PROGRAM.
BACK GROUND INFORMATION.
• The government of Cameroon has done
much to assure portable water in Cameroon.
Unfortunately, the rural population which
makes 60% of the total population has
benefited very little from this effort.
• According to UNICEF only 44% of people
in rural areas of Cameroon, have access to
safe drinking water.
Background…
• The Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs) outlined in the Millennium
Declaration, set an ambitious agenda for
improving the human condition by 2015,
and achievement access to safe and
sufficient water.
• In effect, the progress of a country towards
the MDGs can partly be measured by
assessing that country’s water situation.
• Recent estimates suggest that
climate change will account for
about 20% of the increase in global
water scarcity.
• Giving the poor masses better
access to potable water can make a
big contribution to poverty
eradication.
THE PROBLEM:
• Most rural communities in
Cameroon suffer negative
effects because of the lack
of potable water.
• Most of these water
sources are unprotected
and shared with animals.
• Water born diseases are a
common feature.
Problems…..
• Trekking distances to valley
and uphill for water fetching
is tedious and time
consuming, especially for
women and youths whose
cultural role constrain them to
water fetching in a typical
rural milieu.
• Women spent up to 27% of
their caloric intake in fetching
water.
Problems……
• Eucalyptus planted in water
catchment areas absorb a lot
of water through their deep
roots.
• Hospital sources show that
water related illnesses
(typhoid, malaria, cholera,
etc) are most prevalent in
rural communities
HOW SHUMAS GETS
INVOLVED
• It all started from the numerous needs
assessments in communities. During this
process, more than 80% of the communities
identified potable water as the most felt
need.
• Communities in need apply to SHUMAS .
• A team of technicians and engineers are sent
to the field for feasibility studies:
Feasibility studies involve:
• Identification of water type (well, by gravity,
etc).
• Identification of water source
• Flow rate and distance measurements.
• Population determination and other socioeconomic studies.
• Office design: (Estimates, technical design,
project write up, etc).
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
• Providing potable water to rural communities of
Cameroon.
• Ensuring good management of the water.
• Building sufficient stand taps as needed by the
community.
• Providing water to schools that she constructs.
• Protecting the catchments area from destruction by
bushfire and/or other human activities
ACTIVITIES:
• Applications from needy villages are scrutinized, after a
feasibility study is carried out in order to select the
villages in desperate need of potable water.
• The selected villages put together local materials as
their own contribution to the project.
• This is in line with SHUMAS policy of participatory
approach to rural development.
THE OUTCOME:
• 36 rural communities have been provided
with potable water.
• About 70 schools have been provided with
potable water.
• Water management committees are
functional in all communities that have
benefited.
• The Catchment areas of all water projects
are protected through fencing and planting
of water shed trees
STEPS OF WATER
CONSTRUCTION BY
GRAVITY
Launching, sensitization and mobilization visit
to project community
Excavation of filter channel construction and
chamber construction
Community casting concrete for setting of dam and water collection
chamber foundation/base after water
Women and girls cleaning stones and transporting sand at water
catchment construction site
Water filtration/channel construction
Catchment construction completed
Construction of the water tank
Construction of stand tap
Rotary visit the project with water now flowing
Tap flowing at Kourom II
Steps of well water
construction
Pegging of the well
Digging of the well
Construction of water catchment
Community participation during
project implementation
CHALLENGES:
– Bad roads to some communities and no transport
facilities (vehicle).
– Inadequate funds for the running and execution
of projects.
– Excessive population pressure detrimental to
water catchments
– Climate change affecting water sources.
– About 100 applications from needy communities
with no funding source.
Bad roads and no transportation
means.
FUTURE PLANS:
• SHUMAS is gradually extending her
activities to all the regions in
Cameroon.
• Search for more partners and
collaborators for water projects.
• Reinforce on training of water
management committees.
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Prepared By: SHUMAS