CMP news archive
Stories from the field, partners and media about CMP implementation and scaling-up.
MSF 6 completed successfully (17 Feb 14)
The 6th Multi-stakeholders Forum (MSF) was held on 4 – 5 February 2014 in Ghion Hotel in Addis Ababa and had more than 200 participants from international, federal, regional, CSO, media, private sector and development partners stakeholders.
Finnish Prime Minister and Minister for International Development visited Ethiopia on January 27-28, 2014 (29 Jan 14)
The Prime Minister of Finland, Mr. Jyrki Katainen, and the Minister for International Development, Mr. Pekka Haavisto, with Finnish business delegation having 31 members visited Ethiopia on Jan 27-28, 2014.
Finnish opinion leaders visited Ethiopia and Finland funded projects in Amhara (29 Jan 14)
Finnish opinion leaders and decision makers visited Ethiopia on January 12-16, 2014. Delegation consisted five members of Finnish Parliament, five business leaders, three editor-in chiefs and five prominent civil servants from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Finland Ambassador Ms Sirpa Maenpaa and Counsellor Marko Saarinen.
The fifth research thesis on the Community Managed Project (CMP) approach has been published (11 Dec 13)
The CMP related research project, ReCMP is approaching its final stages. Mebit Mitiku presented his M.Sc. thesis Evaluation of the Level of Service Rendered by Functioning Rural Water Supply Schemes: Case of Farta woreda of Amhara region, Ethiopiaon the 10th December at Addis Ababa University.
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 concerning the implementation efficiency and technical functionality of constructed water points.
However, all the researchers are proposing several improvements to be taken into account in the future development of the CMP approach. Mebit Mitiku’s thesis report is concentrating in the service level which the constructed water points have been delivering. This interesting point of view brought some very important results to be noted in the future development of the CMP approach.
CMP professionals learn more about communication and training methodologies (16 Sep 13)
The COWASH project conducted a training impact assessment in SNNP and Tigray regions for CMP trainings delivered in 2013 in collaboration with COWASH Federal Technical Assistance Team (FTAT) and the Regional Support Units (RSUs). The CMP trainings had been given to stakeholders at the regional, zonal, woreda and kebele levels. One of the major outcomes of the assessment was the lack of skills in using effective communication techniques and training methodology. Most of the trainings provided were rich in content but lacked skills and ways how to make information presentable, simple and people-centered in the process of transferring the required key message for the stakeholders. As a result, the COWASH project decided to tackle the issue and in August, 25 people were trained in communication and training methodology.
CMP presented at the 1st Water Integrity Forum in Delft (19 Jul 13)
The Water Integrity Forum was the first International Forum on water integrity. In order to address the need for extending the reach of water integrity action, the Water Integrity Network (WIN), Water Governance Centre (WGC) and UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education joined forces to organize event at UNESCO-IHE in Delft, the Netherlands from 5 – 7 June 2013. The CMP approach was presented at the forum as an implementation modality that fosters integrity in rural WaSH.
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 19th 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 artisan trainees interviewed (19 Apr 13)
Tarekegn Elias, Dinku Fantu and Lidetu Teshome are three newly selected artisan trainees of the Gumay woreda in Jimma zone, Oromia region. They applied for the artisan training that was advertised by the Woreda Water Office and with 5 other men and 2 women they passed the qualifications and are now ready to start thetheoretical and practical trainings. The training is part of the Community Managed Project (CMP) approach that was initiated in the woreda this year.
Water Safety Planning to be integrated into the CMP approach (19 Apr 13)
The very first Water Safety Planning Training of Trainers' (ToT) training in Ethiopia was jointly developed by the Community-Led Accelerated WaSH (COWASH) project and World Health Organization (WHO) during February and March 2013. The total number of 26 participants of the ToT training consisted of COWASH Federal Technical AssistanceTeam, COWASH Regional Support Units' staff members and Water Quality Experts from Regional Water Bureaus from Amhara, Tigray, SNNPRS and Oromia regions. The training was conducted on March 20-26, 2013 in Woliso.
Regional governments channel funds to institutional sanitation through micro-finance institutions (06 Mar 13)
In 2005 EFY the regional governments of Amhara, Oromia, SNNPR and Tigray have showed remarkable commitment towards improving the status of the institutional sanitation in their respective regions. Altogether the four regions allocated approximately 8,050,000 ETB for school and health institution sanitation from the regional block grant budgets. This specific budget allocation is to be implemented using the Community Manager Project (CMP) approach.
