Webinar "From building infrastructure to creating support mechanisms for rural water supplies"

Published on: 05/10/2015

Webinar "From building infrastructure to creating support mechanisms for rural water supplies"

The rural water supply sector is moving from a focus on building systems to increase coverage, towards one of creating mechanisms to ensure that these systems provide sustainable services. Particularly piped supplies require well-performing and professional (community-based) service providers responsible for operation and maintenance . These in turn need ongoing support and supervision from external entities, particularly local governments, for those activities that are outside their capacity and scope.
This webinar will present examples of the mechanisms – particularly institutional and financial ones - that are in place for supporting community-based service providers. The morning session, which will be in English, will focus on experiences from Asia (India and Timor Leste), while during the Spanish afternoon session experiences will be presented from Latin America (Nicaragua and Bolivia).

Presenters and topics

• Paul Hutchings and Snehalatha Mekala, Community water plus project: Different types of post-construction support arrangements in India: synthesis of findings from 20 case studies from the community water plus project
• Alex Grumbley, WaterAid: Experience with post-construction support in Timor-Leste
• Joshua Briemberg, WaterAid Nicaragua: Desarrollando una estrategia de apoyo pos construcción para comunidades indígenas en la Costa Caribe de Nicaragua
• Mauricio Camacho, Water For People Bolivia: Herramientas de costeo en apoyo a la gestión comunitaria de los sistemas de agua rurales en Bolivia

Discussant

• English session: Marcus Howard, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia.
• Spanish session: Germán Sturzenegger (Inter-American Development Bank)

The one hour English language session will take place at 8am – 9 am GMT (7pm in Sydney, Australia; 1.30pm in New Delhi, India; 10am in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; 9am in London, UK; 4am in New York, USA).
The one hour Spanish language session will take place from 4pm-5pm GMT (3am in Sydney, Australia; 6pm in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; 5pm in London, UK; 12am in New York, USA; 10am in Managua, Nicaragua).

To check out the time in your own time zone, please check http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Webinar+on+Sustainable+Services+-+English&iso=20151006T08&p1=%3A&ah=1.

For more information on the webinar series, see http://rural-water-supply.net/en/projekts/details/79