The Impacts of Rural Water Supply and Management System on Livelihood of User Communities: A Case of Babile Woreda, East Hararge Zone

Edossa, Lechissa (2008) The Impacts of Rural Water Supply and Management System on Livelihood of User Communities: A Case of Babile Woreda, East Hararge Zone. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.

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Abstract

Knowledge of the impacts of rural water supply and management on the livelihood of the user community can help in improving the future impacts of rural water supply. Thus, the objective of this paper is to assess the impacts of rural water supply and management systems on the livelihood of the user community in Babile Woreda, East Hararge Zone. The data sources for the study were both primary and secondary. For secondary data collection document review was used as a tool to collect valuable information. Focus group discussion, household surveys, observation method and key-informants interview were used for primary data collection. Three stage sampling method was used for primary data collection. For the selection of kebele administration stratified sampling method was used based on agro-climatic zone. Two kebele administrations were selected from kola and one from Woina dega agro-climatic zone. Purposive sampling method was used for villages/communities selection and simple random sampling method was employed for households’ selection. House hold survey was conducted in three selected kebele administrations and 90 heads of house hold were randomly drawn from the total 900 water supply user heads of house hold. Three focus group discussions were held with water committee members, elders, health extension workers, development agents and kebele administration officials and four observations were conducted at different water points. For data analysis a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods was employed.The method used for data analysis was simple description: like percentage, average and tabulation. The study revealed that weak institutional capacity, poor water supply scheme and financial management and there was weak linkage between water committees and Woreda Water Office were identified as short comings of the study area. The household survey also showed that, the livelihood of the user communities in the study areas have been improved after they have started to use improved water supply. The improvements in livelihood were manifested through improvement in health and time saving in all the surveyed communities. Whereas 35.6 % of the respondents said, the improved water supply has improved the income of households in terms of opening possibilities for small scale production and livestock watering but about 64.4% of the respondents said no improvement in income after they started to use improved water supply. The implication of reduction in time spent on water collection could mean more time for income generating activities, food production, childcare and health. The study also revealed that the linkage between impacts of water supply and management on the livelihood of the user communities. The better the management of rural water supply indicated that the better was the improvement in benefits of improved water supply. The evidence in the study area indicates that poorly managed water supply scheme has adversely affected the livelihood of the user community, especially in those study areas where water supply schemes interruption was with high frequency. The policy implication of the study is strengthening of the institutional capacity at local level in order to improve the rural water supply scheme management and impacts of rural water supply on the livelihood of the user community.

Item Type:	Thesis (Masters)
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Divisions:	Africana
Depositing User:	Tim Khabala
Date Deposited:	18 May 2018 14:30
Last Modified:	18 May 2018 14:30
URI:	http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/4029

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