Type of service provided :

• Collecting data on access to energy and mini-grids
• Drawing up survey questionnaires
• Drawing up the enumeration plan and sampling plan in collaboration with the client
• Recruitment and training of interviewers
• Deployment of enumeration (Sphinx software) to 2653 households and 565 businesses
• Deployment of the survey (Sphinx software) to 384 households and 187 businesses
• Analysis of georeferenced results (STATA and Qgis software)
• Submission of survey reports, client feedback workshop

Type of service provided :

The focus is on six of the most water-stressed districts in Madagascar (Betroka, Beliky, Amboasary, Ambovombe, Beloha, Tsihombe):
1. Assessment of :

• • water demand through focus groups, key informant interviews and socio-economic desk study;
  • water resources, both surface and groundwaternd commercial performance;
  • existing institutional arrangements and governance models;
  • water supply systems and providers;

2. Data collection and creation of a geo-referenced dataset
3. Drafting of strategic recommendations for USAID regarding the success or failure of infrastructure and services, the needs of rural water users, management models for drinking and agricultural water supply.

Type of service provided :

The services provided by the consortium covered :

• Carrying out a diagnosis and assessment of the technical and commercial performance of JIRAMA’s management and water networks in Tamatave;
• Drawing up a short, medium and long-term action plan to improve its technical and commercial performance;
• Support for JIRAMA in implementing a short-term action plan (targeted leak detection, improved knowledge of water assets, mapping of user meters, improved meter reading and information management practices, etc.);
• Implementation of a capacity-building and skills enhancement programme for JIRAMA aimed at developing local skills associated with leak detection and service performance;
• The development and implementation of a communication plan aimed at the general public (communication on social networks, in the local press and in specialist magazines);
• Drafting the tender documents for the actions deemed to be priorities.

Type of service provided :

The objective of the technical assistance is to increase the autonomy of ENSWC and conduct an in-depth, multi-level reorganization of the corporation to improve its effectiveness and efficiency:

• Supporting the development and implementation of new statutes for ENSWC and local water agencies;
• Implementing a new social pricing policy, a new financial model for ENSWC and cost recovery measures;
• Preparing a 3-year performance-based contract between Enugu State and ENSWC and preparing a 5-year business plan for ENSWC;
• Assisting with the preparation and implementation of a human resource redeployment plan;
• Developing Private Sector Participation (PSP) models.

Type of service provided :

• Assessing the health and environmental situation of each settlement and of the existing sanitation infrastructure;
• Determining the collection and transfer network layouts for all settlements, optimising the choice of treatment sites and technical solutions, focusing on less operationally expensive treatment options, and determining the investment and operating costs of each solution;
• Assessing the current ONAS organisational set-up and skills and proposing appropriate measures;
• Analysing the environmental and social issues in each settlement through 80 household surveys, assessing the option of reusing treated wastewater for agriculture, incorporating the effects of climate change and implementing an environmental and social management framework (ESMF) for the programme;
• Assessing the financial profitability of the programme and the infrastructure operating costs, defining criteria for prioritising the interventions to be planned;
• Defining technical assistance needs and prioritising the packages to be used for future works contracts.