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Interventions done by the Hand Pump technicians in Bombali district
Water committees trainings
The seven chiefdoms initially targeted have been completed end of July 2014 with a total of 345 water committees trained across 309 adopting villages. In total, 381 villages have been visited but only 81% of them accepted the strategy. Hereinafter the results per chiefdom for this activity:
* Villages with at least one well with hand pump
The table below shows the progression of the same results per year:
Results as for 2015
Since 2007, in Bombali
New hand-dug wells constructions : | 74 |
Rehabilitations* : |
36 |
Water committees trained or refreshed : |
703 |
First repairs** : | 327 |
Communities under a preventive maintenance strategy*** : | 183 (out of 1300 functioning wells) |
* Complete work done by Inter Aide on hand-dug wells or boreholes to renovate the system : re-construction of the structure (rebuilding well platform, increasing depht, changing rings etc.), repairing pump or changing to stainless parts…
** Communities who decided to contact a hand pump technician for a first rehabilitation of their hand-pump
*** Communities who contact hand pump technicians for a regular annual diagnosis of their hand pump