Every year about 45,000 children below the age of five years die in Nepal from sanitation related problems, which are attributed to inadequate supplies of water and/ or its poor quality. Improving the quality of the water supply and sanitation has been shown to reduce the morbidity due to different diseases by significant amounts.
The Unica Foundation has been working in water projects since more than a decade in Nepal. Makaikhola is the 10th water project Unica is supporting. Makaikhola village is about in about 30 kilometres far from downtown Pokhara. Based on caste and ethnicity, Bramin /Chhetri and Janajatis are predominant here in the village. The literacy rate is about 70% and the rate of unemployment is almost 50% here. The water scarcity is quite high as people has to spend hours fetching water from the stream nearby. And, the quality of water is often not clean, especially during monsoon.
This is a gravity-flow-based project. The aim of the project is to improve the quality of life by setting up a sustainable and qualitatively safe water supply system and strengthening the income-generating capacity of local people with the series of training / activities. This project therefore covers the three largest part as capacity development, income generation and construction of water system.
NRCS, Kaski as a main implementing partner, while the Unica Foundation supports for fund and monitoring the projects. The role of Madi Rural Municipality is a matching fund arrangement, land management and water source registration. Nonetheless, the Water User’s Committee (WUC) as a local institution makes the contribution to labour and participation throughout the project.
Information
Beneficiaries:
64 household (352 people)
Location:
Madi Rural Municipality Ward No -10, Kaski
Start date: End date:
08-10-2021 07-01-2023
Status:
In progress
Techniques
Drinking water systems
Education
Partners & sponsors
Nepal Red Cross Society (NRCS), Kaski (partner)
Madi Rural Municipality (local partner)
Unica Foundation
