2007 Funded and Committed Projects

Last year the Peer Water Exchange Web 2.0 as we introduced a referral process, and new members were reviewed by existing peers. Protos of Belgium – one of the world’s larger water and sanitation NGOs – had helped the Blue Planet Run as it ran through Antwerp, and we were most happy to invite them to join PWX. Their reputation and quality of work makes them a real asset to the network. Also joining was A Single Drop, a new tiny organization that works on water projects in the Philippines, happy to learn and share from the PWX network. Kairos in Austria, who had worked under the radar with Safer Future in Sierra Leone, officially became a member.

PWX continues to be BPRF’s offering to the water sector. The online system streamlines, simplifies the application process significantly and eliminates the bureaucracy layer present in the funding process. PWX is completely transparent – the applications and all the interactions are visible for everyone to see. The map-based interface of PWX helps see our work in the global perspective and can be easily searched to find information on partners, applications, and projects.

In 2007 – our fourth year of funding projects – we solicited a limited number of specific applications and PWX helped connect the network to share everyone’s work and approach to improve the structure of projects and share knowledge and approaches. With 2008 being the Year of Sanitation, our projects reflected an emphasis on the sanitation with a couple of projects adding a sanitation component to previously funded water projects.

Past Project Funding Lists: [2006]  |  [2005]  |  [2004]

Funding Round:
 2007 To Date

Countries

India
Malawi
Nicaragua
Philippines
Uganda
Vietnam
Yemen

Number of projects funded:
24 142
Number of people impacted:
>4,200 water,
2,500 sanitation 		137,000
Number of countries:
7 14
Number of partners:
9 18
Funding Amount:
$108,025 $1,109,000

 

COUNTRY PWX PARTNER AMOUNT FUNDED PEOPLE IMPACTED
Uganda Protos $25,700 ~600 for water, 350 for sanitation
Integrated Water Resource Management Lake George
A large project in the rural areas of the water basin of Lake George in Kamwenge district, Western Uganda where 28% of the people live below the poverty line, and 35% go hungry. The holistic project will work on several water sources and provide sanitation to 12,000 people increasing the amount of people having saving drinking water from 41% to 66% over two years. BPR funded a small part of this large project that is primarily funded by the Belgian government.. [PWX report]
Philippines A Single Drop $3,000   750
Water System Rehabilitation Lupang Pangako Project
Lupang Pangako is a resettlement area of the Aeta tribe displaced by the eruption of Mt Pinatubo in 1991. The land was donated and a water tank constructed in 2004 has never been used. This project completes the construction of the water system, also adding an electric motor, to provide the refugees with safe drinking water and a chance to grow roots into their new land. The project will also organize the community to contribute and then pay monthly fees for electricity and maintenance.[PWX report]
Yemen CARE $10,000   500 for water, 200 for sanitation
Safe Water for Healthy Life in Yemen, Mahweet Governorate
In poor, rural communities in Yemen, water is scarce or contaminated and sanitation facilities are non-existent or not maintained. Following on last year’s project in Al Mahweet, Care will continue to build or rehabilitate wells, and provide household connections in a nearby community. The community will be educated about proper sanitation and hygiene practices to improve health and maintain the water source. [PWX report]
Vietnam East Meets West $5,000   1,000 for sanitation
EMW Hygiene and Sanitation Behavioral Change
BPRF has funded rural water projects in Quang Nam province. This sanitation project will provide 25% of the financing for people to construct either dual-pit latrines with a septic tank or eco-san latrines. This project will showcase how communities can, with education and partial funding, create and own their own sanitation program.
Status: Complete [PWX report]
Malawi Water for People   $20,086   2,000
Machinjiri /Nkolokoti Community Water and Sanitati
The project improves water supply to one of the low-income communities in the peri-urban area of Blantyre. In partnership with the Blantyre Water Board, the local water utility which is unable to meet community needs, water piped through kiosks will be supplied to the population. In addition, a sanitation service to provide for and regularly empty latrines will be initiated. [PWX report]
Nicaragua El Porvenir $15,342 40 for water, 380 for sanitation
Water and Sanitation in Nicaragua
In the poor, hilly, and remote areas of Nicaragua, the water is simply not safe to drink. In Nueva España a well with a rope pump and latrines will be constructed. In Peña de Cáfe, where BPRF funded two wells earlier, pit latrines will be constructed. Hygiene education and a maintenance model for water are part of the plan to provide water for the long-term as is a reforestation scheme. [PWX report]
India Project Well $11,716 420
Arsenic Safe Drinking Water: Gaighata Phase 2
Arsenic, a colorless, tasteless, odorless poison, is found in the deep groundwater used by nearly 100 million people. One alternative is shallow dugwells that fill up in the rainy season and with the use of chlorine provides a safe source of community water for most of the year. Project Well continues implementing a self-supporting, community-based program in villages in Gaighata to provide arsenic-free water by constructing 14 dugwells along with education on water related health effects to change behaviour. [PWX report]
India Gram Vikas $7,579 220

Gravity Flow Water Supply for Kerandi Village, Orissa, India
The project will create a community-led, gravity flow piped water supply and sanitation system to Kerandi, an un-electrified tribal village in rural Orissa. Safe water will be available 24 hours a day. A self-help group of women will be starting point to impress upon the community the importance of personal hygiene. The village school will also be provided drinking water, toilet, and bathing room facilities with contributions from the entire community. [PWX report]
India WOTR $1,313 320

Sundarwadi School Sanitation Project
Sundarwadi is a small hamlet located in the drought prone Paithan block of district Aurangabad. WOTR has recently completed a watershed program whereby the groundwater is recharged so as to provide safe water all year round. This project taps the water source and pumps it to the small primary school where children will have safe water and sanitation. The plan is to expand the school so that middle-school children have a place to study in the village. In addition 400 trees will be planted and matched to children to ensure their survival, as part of BPRF’s plan to offset the CO2 emissions of the Run. [PWX report]
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