CMP news archive
Stories from the field, partners and media about CMP implementation and scaling-up.
WaterCredit Market Assessment Dissemination Workshop held in Addis Ababa on July 23, 2014 (24 Jul 14)
WaterCredit Market Assessment in Ethiopia was organized and carried out by the Water.org in March-April 2014 in close coordination and cooperation with Care, WaterAid, WASH Ethiopia Movement and COWASH. The research was done by an Indian consultant company M2i. The consultants were Mr. Rahul Bist and Mr. Deepak Alok. Water.org, WaterAid, WEM and COWASH organized the one day workshop on July 23, 2014 in Desalegn Hotel, Addis Ababa to review the draft assessment report and to discuss on how to bring Micro-Finance Institutions closer to WASH sector in Ethiopia and to provide loans for different kind of WASH products and services.
FIRST WASH TECHNICAL COMMITTEE MEETING CONDUCTED (26 Jun 14)
The first WASH Technical Committee meeting of the Water Sector Working Group was conducted on June 26, 2014 in Capital Hotel, Addis Ababa. The meeting was opened by His Excellency Ato Kebede Gerba, State Minister of the Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy and later on chaired by Ato Nuredin Mohammed, Acting Director of the Water Supply and Sanitation Directorate of MoWIE.
Close to 50 WASH stakeholders (only 5 female) from Development Partner organizations, NGOs, Water and Finance Ministries, Academic institutions and from media participated the first meeting. The participants complained the absence of the Health and Education Ministry representatives. In this meeting the sub-groups of the WASH-TC were decided, Government leaders and development partners’ co-leaders for each sub-group were selected and nominated. Also stakeholder members for each sub-group were registered.
There was still a debate on the separate sub-group for sanitation. Others were the opinion that sanitation should be integrated into the rural and urban WASH sub-groups and others were the opinion that sanitation should be separate group. It was finally decided that a separate sanitation sub-group should exist.
The ToR of the WSWG can be found here:
Kebele Water Safety Plan Guideline and related power points finalized. (05 Jun 14)
COWASH in cooperation with MetaMeta finalized the Kebele Water Safety Plan guideline and related power points. The documents are still in English but will be soon translated into Amharic so that regions can start using these training materials in water safety plan training. Discussions have been also held to include these guidelines into the National Water Safety Plan Strategy. WHO is employing two consultants to assist in National WSP Strategy development in close collaboration with MoWIE, MoH and COWASH.
Please visit the following web site to read the KWSP guideline and related power points: http://www.cmpethiopia.org/page/401
The research project on Community Managed Project (CMP) approach (ReCMP) has progressed as planned (30.05.2014) (03 Jun 14)
The CMP related research project, ReCMP is approaching its final stages. All the planned M.Sc. and B.Sc. thesis researches have been completed and are published in http://www.cmpethiopia.org/page/500. The reader is recommended to review the actual research reports.
Also the summary of the completed works, Evaluation of CMP Research Project 2012-2014 – Findings and Recommendations, can be found in the http://www.cmpethiopia.org/page/184.
According to all the research results so far, the CMP approach seems to be as efficient as the project reports from Amhara and Benishangul-Gumuz have shown. This is mainly seeing in the implementation efficiency, strong ownership and technical functionality of constructed water points.
First COWASH M&E / GIS training held in Hawassa (01 Apr 14)
COWASH-woredas were trained for M&E and GIS to support the data collection, database management and to provide basic GIS-skills for water sector officials in regional, zonal and woreda levels. SNNP was the first region to be trained on 25-28.3.2014.
COWASH launched in Benishangul-Gumuz Region (BSGR) (15 Mar 14)
On March 14-15, 2014 COWASH launch seminar was held in Assosa, Bamboo Paradise Hotel with regional stakeholders. Participants in the launch workshop were from Bureau of Finance and Economic Development (6), Water Bureau (3), Health Bureau (2), Women, Children and Youth Bureau (4), Education Bureau (2), Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy (1), Embassy of Finland (1), FinnWASH (4) and COWASH (5).
Vacancies announced in COWASH (11 Mar 14)
COWASH is looking for two new specialists into its Technical Assistance team at the Federal level. The vacancies are:Crosscutting Specialist and Communications Officer. Both posts are for 2 years employment.
National Water Safety Planning Workshop held on March 5 in Addis Ababa (06 Mar 14)
29 water safety planning stakeholders gathered for one day to discuss the Ethiopian experience on rural water safety planning and to explore how Ethiopia should scale up the use of water safety planning as an instrument to improve WASH sector performance
MoWIE 6-months review meeting held (01 Mar 14)
Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy (MoWIE) 6-months review meeting held in Addis Ababa on Feb 23-24, 2014.
COWASH woreda map published (27 Feb 14)
COWASH woredas have a population of about 9 million people and the total area of COWASH woredas cover about 25 % from the Finland land area.
