water service in bosomtwe appiah effah-ae-e ppt

5-7, Sept. 2011 Appiah-Effah, Eugene WASHCost/KNUST

Cost of rural and small town water service delivery in the Bosomtwe District

by

Appiah-Effah E., Nyarko K. B., Dwumfour-Asare, B. , Moriarty, P.

Ghana Water Forum


Presentation Outline

Introduction

Objectives

Methodology

Results

Conclusion


WASHCost Project

KNUST and IRC are implementing WASHCost, which is an action research project that

... researches the life-cycle costs of providing water, sanitation and hygiene(WASH) services in rural and peri-urban areas

… to stimulate the use of cost information to improve governance and decision making at all levels

The approach used for this project is the Life Cycle Cost Approach (LCCA).


Introduction-Ghana Perspective

According to CWSA (2009) in 200856% of rural people have been served with

handpumps 62% served under small-town piped water

systems.

The provision of water facilities is not enough to guarantee sustainable service delivery unless there are clear mechanisms for ensuring operations and maintenance.


Objectives

The objectives of the study are:

To determine the cost of providing water services using the LCCA

To assess the level of water service delivered.


Methodology -Study area and sampling

Bosomtwe District population= 187,499 (2009)

10 rural communities and 1 small town Standard of living

o Poor

o Non poor

Study Areas

o 1No. ST,

o 10 No. SC

o NB; ST=Small Town,

SC=Small

Community


Capital expendit-

ureOperational and minor mainten-ance expendit-

ureCapital main-tenance ex-penditure

Direct support costs

Indirect support cost

Costs of capital

Life Cycle Costs Components

Life-cycle costs (LCC) refer to the costs of ensuring adequate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services to a specific population in a determined geographical area - not just for a few years but indefinitely.

Life Cycle Costs


Cost components were adjusted to the current values (year 2009) using GDP deflators (World Bank Group, 2010).

The data used to calculate the Expenditure on Direct Support (ExpDS is from CWSA and DAs’ (DWSTs) annual reports. Total per-capita investment in direct costs was calculated by dividing the costs of

regional CWSA offices by the regional population, and district WASH expenditure by the district population.

Framework for analysing costs of providing service

Water Service Levels

Indicators

Water quantity accessed

Distance to water source

Crowding-with-reliability

High > 60 lcd <=500 meters <=300 per point source

Intermediate 40 - 60 lcd <=500 meters <=300 per point source

Basic 20 – 40 lcd <=500 meters <=300 per point source

Sub-standard 5 – 20 lcd >500 meters >300 per point source

No service <5 lcd >500 meters >300 per point source


Overall Water Service level

Rural Small Town

Basic and above 34% 72%

Sub-standard 61% 28%

No service 5% 0%

Results-Overall water service


cost per capita per year in US$

Cost Components Rural Water Small Town

Capital Investment 42 79

Operation and Minor maintenance 0.9 2.3

Capital Maintenance Expenditure NA 1

Direct Support Cost 0.56 0.56

Results-Cost of providing water services


CapEx for Small towns cost about twice that of the water point system.

Running cost of small towns cost four times that of the water point systems.

The small towns provide high acceptable service compared to water point system

Capital maintenance is not being

undertaken in a systematic manner, and expenditure on capital maintenance is very low and most often not available.

No policy in place for systematic replacement of handpumps

Conclusions


District Water and Sanitation Plans should incorporate all the cost elements and plan replacement of asset and proper operations.

Government should adequately fund Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) and District Assemblies (DAs) to be able to provide relevant post construction support.

Recommendations


Thank You

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