Improve Access to Clean Water in Kenya

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Summary

Fighting child mortality and diarrheal disease by protecting natural springs, organizing local groups to manage resources, and installing connections from water supplies to households. progress reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Improving access to clean water is critical to fighting child mortality and diarrheal disease in developing countries. By protecting, organizing, and installing access to water, the Rural Water Project aims to reduce instances of child mortality and disease in Kenya. This project undertakes a rigorous evaluation of these activities to identify the interventions that most effectively improve water quality and child health.

Activities

Mobilize rural and sub-urban communities in western Kenya to protect and maintain natural springs and expand piped water resources. We rigorously evaluate project impact and disseminate findings to policymakers, development practitioners, and donors.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $1,325
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $11,175
Total Funding Goal: $12,500

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Clean water reduces the rate of of child mortality and improves long-term health outcomes of those utilizing newly protected resources. Improved health enables children and parents to devote more time and energy to school and work.

Project Message

I love our new protected spring. My children and I no longer have to scoop our drinking water from the pool our neighbor's cow drinks from.
- Roselyn O., Project beneficiary

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Lisa Carter,
Officer Manager
85 Willow Street
Building B, 2nd Floor
New Haven, CT 06511
United States
203.772.2216
Email:

Project Sponsor

Innovations for Poverty Action

Organization

Innovations for Poverty Action
85 Willow Street
Building B, Second Floor
New Haven, CT 06511
United States
203.772.2216
http://www.poverty-action.org

Learn more about Innovations for Poverty Action and the project team.


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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Kenya and can also be found under Health.

For more information about Kenya, read the Human Development Report on Kenya or the Wikipedia entry for Kenya.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on February 19, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on June 08, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

How You've Helped to Make a Difference

By Anne Healy - Evaluation Coordinator, February 19, 2008 01:30 PM

During the past year, the IPA team protected an additional 50 springs – the cost of one of these was supported in full by the generous donations received through Global Giving. Thanks to these funds, an entire community of 300+ people now has cleaner water.

IPA has also reported some preliminary findings from its randomized impact evaluation of this project:

Spring protection greatly improves water quality at the source (reducing fecal contamination by 66%) and moderately improved household water quality (reducing contamination by 23%).
Spring protection improves child health: diarrhea among young children in households benefiting from springs protected by IPA fell by 4.6 percentage points, or one quarter on a baseline diarrhea prevalence of approximately 20 percent.
When a spring is protected, households increase their use of the improved water source to collect their drinking water.
Not only has this project benefited communities with improved water sources, but it has also contributed to strengthening the capacity of a local evaluation team of 70+ staff in carrying out rigorous evaluations of development projects. On a day-to-day basis, IPA trains its staff in the methodology of randomized evaluation and the related skills of designing and administering surveys, data collection, data management, and so on, thereby building a local monitoring and evaluation team from the ground by hiring and training locals.

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