EVALUATION THE IMPACT OF WORLD VISION ETHIOPIA, WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE PROJECT ON THE COMMUNITY: THE CASE OF AMHARA REGION, WEST GOJAM ZONE,JABI TEHNANE WOREDA

Abstract

Water is life. It is a basic need for human being welfare. Adequate domestic water supply is an entry point to sustainable development. However. Approximately 780 million people, 11% of the world’s population, remain without safe drinking water, and over 2 billion or 37% of the world’s population remain without safe sanitation methods. To solve this basic problem of the community governmental and non-governmental organizations have been implementing water supply and sanitation projects so far, many lack sustainability due to improper management. This is attributed to the implementation modalities and the level of community engagement .Among the Non governmental organizations World Vision Ethiopia/WVE/Is the primary international NGO in the Amhara region and Jabi tehnane Woreda in particular engaged in water supply ,sanitation and hygiene works. Accordingly Study were conducted to evaluate the impact of world Vision Ethiopia, Jabi tehnane ADP water, sanitation and hygiene project on the community. The study fallowed quantitative and qualitative survey. To make this real a random sample of 40 villages were selected from 39KAs and then a total of 400 households (10 households from each cluster) selected using systematic random sampling. The focus group were also organized to address grass root beneficiaries composed of Kebele leaders and user community. Literature review is part of the evaluation which considered review of reports of government and WVE. The project implementation strategy of WVE primarily emphasized working with partners, especially with government offices and through Community participation. The discussion with FGDs shown as that WVE have solved their critical water shortage problem and enhanced their sanitation and hygiene practices. The community has participated in WVE project in various ways, in kind, in Cash and in labor during water supply scheme construction and sanitation and hygiene campaign. The evaluation study found that WVE Jabi tehnane Area development program have improved the potable water coverage from 51.62% in 2007 to 54 % . while the review of secondary data shows improvement from 42 % in2007 to 66.36 % in 2016.WVE alone have contributed for 13% increment in water coverage by constructing 165 water schemes which benefited 26,500 populations. Sanitation facilities improved from in 50% to 88.5 %, this show 38.5 % increament in private latrine coverage . Regarding community led total sanitation out of 39 KAs 35 have declared open defecation free .The hygiene practices have also improved. The survey found out that 57.3 % of respondents wash hands with soap. While 81 % of the respondents wash their hand at least at four critical times. Diarrhea among under 5 children reduced from 32 % to 29 %.