Water First:
Prepared by James Laske
Project Proposal for Freshwater Malawi
May 15, 2011
Overview
Why Care about Water?
Water and the MDGs
Project Location
Water Infrastructure
Sanitation
Organization Details
Conclusion
Why care about water?
Water and the
Millennium Development Goals
MDG 1: Eradicate Extreme 
Poverty and Hunger
MDG 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education
MDG 3: Promote Gender Equality
and Empower Women
Water First Location:
Blantyre District, Malawi
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Objectives:
1) Water Infrastructure
2)Drinking Water for 37,500 Malawians within 500 meters
3) Sanitation- open defecation free villages
4) 1,650 trained in CBM
5) Women's participation
Water Supply
1) Preliminary data collection
2) Stakeholder mobilization
3) Mobilization of local resources
4) Geophysical survey
5) Borehole drilling
6) Water quality testing
7) Civil works/Pump installation
8) Community-Based MGT training
9) Handover to community
10) Monitoring
Activities
Community-Based Management
1) Technical
2) Health
3) Community Development
Community-Led Total Sanitation
even if only minority of the community practices open defecation
non-traditional
community mobilization, participatory exercises, stimulating dialogue rather than on hardware
technical training
Monitoring
-Between six months and one year
-Between one year and two years
-Meet with a WPC rep.
-Reports and photo documentation
-Other visits
Evaluation
The project will be conducted in one T/A each year.
WPC's from each village to share successes, challenges, solutions
Written evaluations by Freshwater staff
Freshwater Malawi
Established 1995
Any Questions?
884 million people worldwide do not have clean water
330 million people in sub-Saharan Africa
40% of rural Malawians rely on unsafe water
Bacteria
Parasites
Chemicals
Poor Health and Higher Mortality
rural
poverty
water access
but...
cheaper inputs
markets
transport, communication, and
information access
Borehole Wells
Water First Project
Sanitation
Schools and Villages
Clean water alone is not
enough to prevent disease
Only 15-30% of rural Malawians use improved sanitation facilities
Local non-profit with a mission to bring clean water and sanitation to rural Malawi
Locations served
Technology expertise
2000 boreholes, 600,000
Partners
Community-based development
While many people take safe drinking water for granted
Rivers, streams and shallow wells
may contain: