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In order to realise its vision, “1001 fontaines pour demain” needs to rally the help of several key players, both as “hands-on” partners on the ground (10 different NGO’s are involved in carrying out Phase 2 of the Cambodian project) and as funding partners (which means we must bring our association to the attention of the public, especially through the media).
The deployment of this initiative relies on the help of local resources in each country which can guide the beneficiaries through the set-up of the projects and help them through the first few years of operations. These local partners are generally local NGO’s which specialise in the various means of providing access to water in rural areas.
An example of such a partnership is the NGO
DEEP in Cambodia, an NGO which started out as part of Handicap International and became fully autonomous in 1998.
The rate of development therefore depends on the ability to identify and train these local partners in the various areas of intervention and in the deployment approach. This typically entails two preparatory phases over the first two years before the full-scale deployment of the project, based on a goal of forty to fifty Treatment Units per year.
In order to help the beneficiary communities to properly master this new water-production activity, we also rely on Host NGOs, which are usually NGOs that have been present in the village for several years (often for projects of a different nature), and who can guide and oversee the operation of the activity on a daily basis.
The implementation of these projects obviously requires funding:
A first test/Pilot Project (of three fountains as in Phase 1 of the Cambodia project) costs about €.50,000. A pre-deployment/Introduction Project (of eight additional villages as in Phase 2 of the Cambodia project) is budgeted at in the order of €.120,000, i.e. an investment of €.15,000 per site. In the large-scale Deployment Project it is estimated that the investment required per village is between €.8,000 to €.10,000, i.e. an investment of less than 10 Euros per beneficiary.
The rate of deployment therefore also depends on the ability to mobilise funds. In order to do this it is important to bring the initiative to the attention of as many people as possible, especially through the media.
