Effectiveness of the community-based maintenance system for rural water supply facilities in Uganda

CBMS was introduced in Uganda in 1986 to address challenges of functionality of rural water facilities. However functionality has stagnated for the last 5 years at 85% as opposed to the national target of 90% by 2015. The paper assesses the performance of the CMBS in Uganda, outlining the factors th...

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Main Authors:	Joel Kiwanuka, Ahmed Sentumbwe
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Published:	2015
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spelling	rr-article-95866552015-01-01T00:00:00Z Effectiveness of the community-based maintenance system for rural water supply facilities in Uganda Joel Kiwanuka (7217930) Ahmed Sentumbwe (7219349) untagged CBMS was introduced in Uganda in 1986 to address challenges of functionality of rural water facilities. However functionality has stagnated for the last 5 years at 85% as opposed to the national target of 90% by 2015. The paper assesses the performance of the CMBS in Uganda, outlining the factors that affect it including the legal status of WSC, voluntary nature of the WSC members, willingness and ability of water users to contribute to O&M, availability of back-up support to WSCs, functionality of community support water artisans, the Supply Chain for Spare-parts, vandalism of water source parts, and women participation in CBMS. Analysis is made to the emerging community approaches and innovations in management of RWS facilities. Conclusions and recommendations are made to address the challenges identified. 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Text Conference contribution 2134/31207 https://figshare.com/articles/conference_contribution/Effectiveness_of_the_community-based_maintenance_system_for_rural_water_supply_facilities_in_Uganda/9586655 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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description	CBMS was introduced in Uganda in 1986 to address challenges of functionality of rural water facilities. However functionality has stagnated for the last 5 years at 85% as opposed to the national target of 90% by 2015. The paper assesses the performance of the CMBS in Uganda, outlining the factors that affect it including the legal status of WSC, voluntary nature of the WSC members, willingness and ability of water users to contribute to O&M, availability of back-up support to WSCs, functionality of community support water artisans, the Supply Chain for Spare-parts, vandalism of water source parts, and women participation in CBMS. Analysis is made to the emerging community approaches and innovations in management of RWS facilities. Conclusions and recommendations are made to address the challenges identified.
format	Default Conference proceeding
author	Joel Kiwanuka Ahmed Sentumbwe
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author_sort	Joel Kiwanuka (7217930)
title	Effectiveness of the community-based maintenance system for rural water supply facilities in Uganda
title_short	Effectiveness of the community-based maintenance system for rural water supply facilities in Uganda
title_full	Effectiveness of the community-based maintenance system for rural water supply facilities in Uganda
title_fullStr	Effectiveness of the community-based maintenance system for rural water supply facilities in Uganda
title_full_unstemmed	Effectiveness of the community-based maintenance system for rural water supply facilities in Uganda
title_sort	effectiveness of the community-based maintenance system for rural water supply facilities in uganda
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Effectiveness of the community-based maintenance system for rural water supply facilities in Uganda

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