Monitoring Capacity of the Community Owned Water Supply Organizations for Rural Water Supply Projects: A Case of Mkuranga District, Tanzania

Mabuli, Juvenal Daniel (2019) Monitoring Capacity of the Community Owned Water Supply Organizations for Rural Water Supply Projects: A Case of Mkuranga District, Tanzania. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

The study examined monitoring capacity of the Community Owned Water Supply Organizations (COWSOs) for rural water supply projects. The study specifically examined how water services information/data are being collected or recorded, used and communicated at scheme level. It also examined the awareness of COWSO member to relevant water supply indicators as measure to determine at what extent they know what they are supposed to do. The study also examined the participation of LGA in providing technical assistance to COWSOs as an indication of existence of formal monitoring system at COWSO and LGA. The study involved sample of 90 respondents which include 80 COWSO members from ten (10) COWSOs and ten (10) Village Executive Officers. The findings revealed that monitoring capacity of COWSOs is very poor and is mainly caused by inadequate trainings and lack of monitoring framework at Local Government Authority (LGA). The study recommended that, COWSO being a primary source of monitoring data to water sector, Ministry of Water (MoW) should reform its rural water sector M&E system by doing the following; one, employ professional staff up to COWSO level to assist management of COWSOs in M&E perspective; two, design M&E system (preferably computerized system) with all tools (monitoring plan, data collection tools etc.) and specify performance monitoring indicators. Information will be uploaded into the system by a technical person at COWSO level on weekly basis to reflect the existing situation on ground. The study also recommends LGA to develop monitoring framework to deal with issues more proactively (strategically planned) and not reactively as it used to be.

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