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Presented by : Denis ZOUNGRANA, 2iE Ouagadougou

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON RURAL WATER SERVICE : PROVIDING

SUSTAINABLE WATER SERVICES AT SCALE 

Kampala, April 13th, 2010

Decentralized rural drinking water management: case study from Burkina Faso

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Outlines of the presentation

Introduction: country facts

Overview of drinking water sector

The reform of rural water supply management

ADAE Model

Lessons learnt and challenges

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1. Introduction

Burkina Faso (West Africa)

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1. Introduction

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2. Water sector overview

criteria and standards for access to drinking water (2007): living within 1 km from a modern water point (PEM) or public standpumps.

Means of services delivery in rural areas (national report 2010):

more than 43 000 boreholes and wells,

400 small water supply networks

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2. Water sector overview

Performance of rural water sub-sector (national report 2010) :

Rate of coverage (2009): 57%Rate of functionality

1. Modern water points: 83%2. Small water supply networks: 66%

Rate of coverage doesn’t equal to rate of access

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3. The reform of rural water supply management

Historical overview of service delivery : The management of rural water has been a pendulum swing. It wasentire responsibility of the state and its branches 1960 - 1980.

fully decentralized and theoretically managed by the communities (1980- 2000) under various names: CPE / CGPE/CGES.

centralized again the management of the service delivery, at the local governments level (2004). They have the ownership of the water supply infrastructures.

CPE/CGPE/CGES : Water point Committee/Water Point management committee/ Solar equipment management committee

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Water service delivery model for rural areas

Villages (population < 3500 inhab.)

3. The reform of rural water supply management

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Water service delivery model for rural areas

Semi-urban agglomerations (population > 3500 inhab.)

3. The reform of rural water supply management

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Areas : 41 Small water supply networks

ADAE AREA

4. Shared management of drinking water by ADAE

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Model designed on accountability of each stakeholder: it is a mixture of community management, delegation to private sector and involvement of local NGO who drive the system

4. Shared management of drinking water by ADAE

Processes contractualisation instead of systems contractualisation

Pooling and contractualisation of processes

Main processes pooled contractualized:Planning (ADAE)Maintenance (private sector)Audit (Private sector)

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Mechanism for Governance:

1.Day to day management is controlled by Water Users2.Association (AUE) at village level

3.Each month: system operator at village level report to CDG

4.Each six months: CDG report to the Federation of AUE

5.Each year: General Assembly on the system

4. Shared management of drinking water by ADAE

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Lessons

1. Pooling and contracting the processes is an effective method to reduce transaction costs in the drinking water service delivery in rural and semi-urban areas. It limits the risks in this non matured market;

2. Coaching (Learning by doing) is an effective way to build sustainable capacity of water stakeholders in the municipalities;

3.Inadequate funding of non-market activities (social marketing, mechanisms of access to service) limits the service development 3 to 5 l/capita/day).

4. What is the most appropriate scale for the processes

pooling?

5. Lessons learnt andchallenges

Challenges of recentralisation in Burkina Faso

5. Lessons learnt andchallenges

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1- Shifting the ownership from the Water users associations to the municipalities

2- find the optimum level of mutualization and pooling

3- Find the adaptated mechanism to finance the after construction cost

4- How to balance efficiency and equity:

Challenges of recentralisation in Burkina Faso

5. Lessons learnt andchallenges

Thank you for listening

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