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The Steward (04 Feb 15)

By Benti Ejeta

It was the afternoon of 26 November 2014. A team from Community-Led Accelerated WASH (COWASH) Project paid a visit to Gult-5 community of Yeloma kebele, Bahir Dar Zuria district in Amhara Region. There a woman with two years old son on her back was enthusiastically meeting and welcoming the team. She is known with the name Yelibe Yibelu. “I don’t know my age for sure. It may be 25? Or it may be more. Do you think I am in 30s?” says Yelibe who even lost the track of when she got married.

Abichu gena woreda is located in North Shoa zone of Oromia Region. COWASH started in Abichu gena woreda in 2005 EFY (2012-2013) and is now implementing the 3^rd year in the Woreda. During the period of 2 years Abichu gena woreda has implemented 61 water points and the number of water points planned to be implemented this year (2014-2015) are 41. COWASH has accelerated the water supply access coverage in Abichu gena woreda from its lower percentage to 95 % and the woreda is optimistic that it will achieve the GTP targets due to COWASH assistance. In sanitation all households which have joined the water supply have also constructed toilets and in addition to this 2 school and 2 health facility latrines have been built and 2 kebeles have been declared ODF.

W/ro Zenash Abebe is the chairperson of the Debero-Garmojo water point. She is assisted by W/ro Tatchi Gemeda (Treasurer), Ato Kebede Zeleke (Secretary) and other three WASHCO members. Together they manage the water supply serving 30 households.

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Visit to Abichu gena woreda

Experience sharing event on implementing high technologies through the CMP approach (05 Jul 13)

Altogether 45 participants from governmetal offices, WaSH projects, NGOs, MFIs, academia and major donor organizations participated in the CMP high technology experience sharing event held on 19^th June in Dukem. The main objective of the event was to create a platform for learning on how the CMP approach can be used for a broader selection of WaSH technologies.

CMP trainings completed in Tigray and SNNPR regions (09 Apr 12)

The Community-led Accelerated WaSH in Ethiopia (COWASH) project organized trainings in the two regions that are starting to implement the Community Managed Project (CMP) approach in their selected woredas this year. In Tigray, both CMP woredas, Ofla and Enda Mohoni, have planned to construct 20 water schemes each. In the SNNPR, Chencha and Arbaminch Zuria woredas both aim at 23 water schemes respectively.

COWASH kick-off, December 2011 (07 Mar 12)

The Community-led Accelerated WaSH (COWASH) in Ethiopia kicks off with more funding to support the scaling up of the CMP approach in the whole country.