The Global Engineers by Evan Thomas

Author:Evan Thomas
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030502638
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

The DRIP theory of change includes performance-based financial incentives to support the prioritization of cost-effective water pump management. We are currently demonstrating this important pillar in Kenya in partnership with Proof of Impact. Our sensors are reporting functional pump-days to buyers of “impact events” who are now providing funding to local water utilities on a monitored performance basis (https://​proofofimpact.​com/​events/​provide-stable-water-access).

The USAID supported Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership (SWS) led by the University of Colorado Boulder, has recently identified key factors in enabling effective water service delivery. These include monitoring capacity, technical capacity, policy and regulatory oversight, and government-led financial incentive programs. Similarly, several factors have been identified that influence water user payments. Most critically, users are more likely to pay for water services if reliable and fast maintenance and repairs occur (Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership 2020). These water service and water user payment factors are relevant to the DRIP theory of change and deployments.

Dan Hollander, an American civil engineer and former USAID foreign service officer, leads the SWS program. Dan’s experience working in low, middle, and high-income countries as an engineer is shared in Chap. 10.

This work builds in part on our ability to monitor groundwater pump functionality and use, and link these data with institutions who can take action to maintain water access. Using our satellite and cellular-connected sensors, we currently monitor all of the government-designated drought response groundwater pumps in northern Kenya and nearly all motorized boreholes in Afar, Ethiopia, with expansion foreseen into Somali, Ethiopia. As of early 2020, we are continuously monitoring the water supplies of over 3 million people on a daily basis (Fig. 3.9).

Fig. 3.9Satellite and cellular-connected groundwater pump monitoring network and the Famine early warning systems network food insecurity status for December, 2019.

Source prepdata.org, accessed on March 25, 2020

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