DLI 2: Improved Water Services

The design of water schemes should take into consideration multiple water uses where possible for livestock, farmer-led irrigation, and other productive uses to support livelihoods. Where multiple use is included, the design must be based on 70 lpcd.

The Counties should select a water supply technology that is appropriate for the population density, and quality and availability of water resources at each site. Consider the use of innovative new technologies such as solar water pumping to reduce operational costs, to promote increased efficiency and reliability in rural water supply, and to reduce carbon emissions.

The Counties should improve the efficiency and climate resilience of rural water infrastructure by including resilient design measures, selecting climate resilient water sources and adopting climate resilient measures such as sand dams, as well as water scheme-level and household-level water storage to mitigate the effects of variability in water scarcity, particularly in the targeted Counties in Kenya's ASAL regions. To support improved climate resilience, training will be provided to the Counties on climate-resilient design and construction of water supply infrastructure through the IPF. Develop and implement water safety plans and point-of-use water treatment options that avoid boiling, therefore reducing the demand for firewood and slowing deforestation and the release of carbon.

SDWS will assure the quality of the works financed under the K-WASH Operation in line with Design Manual Standards for water scheme design and construction. The IPF will also provide support to enhance design and construction quality supervision, as well as support to SDWS to revise the National Water Supply and Sanitation Infrastructure Design Manuals.

SDWS will report on the implementation of the minimum design criteria for each water scheme reported under the Program in the Annual Program Assessment Report. Counties will report on Operation & Maintenance of schemes implemented under the Program in their respective Results Monitoring Reports.

Verification of results will be through desk-based review of documents submitted by each county and water scheme, and physical verification visits.

The IVA will carry out a desk-based review of:

1. 17 official signed and stamped letters, one from each of the 17 CECM Water, to the Principal Secretary for SDWS confirming that:
   1. the households reported in the PRMR under DLI 2, were without access to an improved water service, prior to the beginning of the Program;
   2. that the households have not been reported in the PRMR under DLI 2 in any previous Program period;
   3. that households reported in the PRMR under DLI 2 are served by water schemes that meet the minimum design checklist (as defined in Section 11 in the POM)
2. A letter for each submitted water scheme under DLI 2, signed by both the Chairperson and Vice Chairperson of the water scheme, confirming that:
   1. the households reported in the PRMR as gaining access to an improved water service from the scheme all meet the improved water service requirements (as defined in Section 11 in the POM)
   2. the households reported in the PRMR as gaining access to an improved water service from the scheme, were without access to an improved water service (as defined in Section 11 in the POM), prior to the beginning of the Program
3. For each water scheme for which households are being reported in the PRMR as gaining access to an improved water service under DLI 2, the:
   1. Design report (as per Annex x in the POM) and construction completion certificate for the scheme (as per Annex x in the POM) both signed off by the EBK approved professional engineer
   2. Environmental and Social (E&S) statutory licences (NEMA EIA licence and WRA abstraction permit) for the scheme
   3. Land ownership confirmation (Title document or signed land agreement) for the land that the scheme is constructed on
4. Water quality test certificates for each water scheme for which households are being reported in the PRMR as gaining access to an improved water service under DLI 2.
5. WSP service area map (drawn to scale) to determine number of households served within 500m

The IVA will make physical visits to villages on a random basis to verify verbal data by physically sampling within in each water scheme including households served on an agreed sampling basis, defined under Section III Methodology below.

In case a water point is locked, a verifier should (i) observe if any activities are happening, see if the area is wet, or the water tank has water; and (ii) ask people in the community to see if the water point is being used. The same protocol applies for an outage.

 

DLI 2 and DLI 3 will be independently sampled, but samples may overlap.