A Community Cooperative Program

Family Water Project

Jonathan Davitte

Roshan Patel

Laurel Lloyd

Sara Sweeney

Sally Dover1

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Current Resources and Interventions

Nutrition inpatient clinics 1

RTUF supplementation 1

Increased food productivity

initiative 2

School meals 2

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Water in Ethiopia

41.2% of families have access to

safe water 3

Travel long distances to collect

water 4

Drought

Current projects for pipe and

pump systems 5

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Linking Water to Nutrition

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The Solution: Water Co-Op

Providing Hippo rollers to

21,000 families to provide

clean drinking water to an

estimated 168,000 people

over 5 years

Monthly dues of 25 cents

(US) per family generates

over $5,000 monthly co-op

income

See Appendix for Target Population Calculation

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The Solution: Water Co-OpPrimary Intervention: share in Hippo

roller and monitoring by local

coordinator

Identification of acute malnutrition

Linking to treatment services

Education about basic hygiene and

water practices

Profit-based Intervention: community

water infrastructure development

(cisterns)

Long-term Intervention: capacity-

building

Community linkages to health care

facilities and other organizations

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Benefits of Water Co-Op

Clean filtered water, can be stored

Reduced incidence of diarrheal disease

Opportunity for improved hygiene

practices

Women-centered approach,

encompasses entire families

Less time away from home, child care

Increased business opportunities for

income-generating activities

Culturally acceptable way to address a

universal need

Community empowerment/ownership

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ImplementationStaggered recruitment

of communities over 3

years

Collaboration with key

community stakeholders

Community members

recruit women (families)

Reinvestment of

monthly profits into

community water

infrastructure

development

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

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Budget

Expenditure Over 5 Years

7,000 Rollers at $100 Each 9 = $700,000

Program management staff = $150,000

Facilities, maintenance, and transportation = $150,000

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Conclusion

Nutritional interventions alone cannot reduce burden of acute severe

malnutrition.

Improved access to and transportation of clean water can indirectly

reduce malnutrition.

Family Water Project provides:

A sustainable system for improving access to and facilitating

transportation of clean water

Identification of malnourishment cases and referral to already existing

services

Improvement of community water storage through profit cistern

development allocation

Direct improvements to health, agriculture, and economic potential of

entire families instead of only malnourished children

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Appendix: Target Population Calculation

1 roller = water for 3 families per day

(7,000 rollers)(3 families per roller) = 21,000

families

(21,000 families)(average family size of 8) =

168,000 people 8