Water Sector Trust Fund, under the support of the Governments of Kenya and Denmark is implementing the Green Growth and Employment Programme (GGEP) to support access to and management of water resources in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs). The GGEP is being implemented in eight counties (Garissa, Isiolo, Lamu, Marsabit, Mandera, Tana River, Turkana and Wajir) by Water Service Providers (WSPs), Community Based Organizations (CBOs), Conservancies and Water Resources User Associations (WRUAs) and a number of projects have been completed successfully while a few are at final stages of completion. The Programme core focus areas includes; water services access, access to sanitation; hygiene promotion and water resources management.
Water Fund is partnering with CETRAD in providing training to all the Implementing Partners in the eight target counties to build technical capacity for sustainable management, operation and maintenance of the developed rural water facilities. The Overall objective of the capacity building programme is to document skills and knowledge gaps (through training needs assessment, TNA) and address the identified gaps through capacity building initiatives of the funded water schemes in delivery of high quality and sustainable water services. The training scope for the funded projects is covering seven key thematic areas namely: -
• Governance structure
• Financial Management (Billing and Revenue)
• Tariff setting
• Operations and Maintenance
• Non-Revenue Water management
• Ring fence funds for O&M, NRW and sustainability
• Sensitize and steer the County in selecting the most appropriate delivery option to ensure sustainability
The training programme which started on 11th October, 2021 in Marsabit is targeting 40 community groups and 200 individual participants funded by WSTF and will run through up to 18th November, 2021.
CETRAD runs a rich hydromet data and information base generated from its long term and comprehensive monitoring network in the upper Ewaso Ngiro North river basin. Most of this data is now linked through a real time transmission system and interfaced to its database as well as to some selected Water Resources Users Associations (WRUAs) in the upstream areas.
