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East Timor Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project (BESIK)
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| Sector |
Water and Sanitation |
| Location |
Timor Leste |
| Duration |
2007-2012 |
| Funding |
AusAID |
| Value |
A$41 million |
| Partners |
Government of Timor Leste, local NGOs and communities |
Associates
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GHD |
| Objective |
This capacity-building program, funded primarily by AusAID, works foremost with the Government of Timor-Leste's infrastructure and health ministries with the objective of increasing access in poor rural communities to improved water and sanitation. It also works closely with non-government organisations, training institutions and private sector to plan for, adequately resource and deliver a nationally sustainable rural water and sanitation capacity. BESIK’s focus on community engagement ensures that communities can better plan for, then maintain improved quality water supply including at schools and health clinics. BESIK promotes changed sanitation and hygiene behaviour, leading to better health outcomes. Women are key participants to sustainable changed practices and major beneficiaries of the program. |
| Key Highlights |
- 26,500 additional people with access to safe water.
- 8,000 additional people with access to basic sanitation.
- A government-owned Rural Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Sector Strategy that provides for a 5-10 year strategic planning horizon, broad measures of success and key responsibilities
- Increased investment in rural water supply which puts Timor-Leste on track to meet the Millennium Development Goal for rural water.
- Creation of the Department of Sanitation in Ministry of Infrastructure and the first ever investment in rural sanitation by Government of the Democratic Republic of Timor Leste.
- A comprehensive total sanitation approach to achieve rapid scaling up of access to improved sanitation.
- 88 sub-district facilitator recruited, trained and deployed.
- Training of key government and NGO staff and volunteers to support Rural Water, Sanitation and Hygiene services. Training courses developed by BESIK are embedded in institutions and larger cohorts of master trainers.
- Draft National Sanitation Policy, Draft National Water Policy and revised National Rural Water Guidelines.
- Sector monitoring tools and a water management information system so that there is the evidence upon which to plan local level service delivery.
- Consolidation and strengthening of National Directorate of Water Supply and Sanitation systems in community planning for and management of rural water supply, specifically O&M (Operations and Maintenance), financial management training and systems, design, contract development and supervision systems.
- Strengthening of systems for water system status monitoring and community management of those systems.
- Strengthening of systems for monitoring water resources, with related training provided.
- A systematic approach to Ministry of Health leading sanitation & hygiene promotion programs in partnership with NGOs developed, with the Integrated Community Health Service and Family Health Promoters system strengthened.
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