Rural Water Capacity Needs Assessment

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Rural Water Capacity Needs Assessment

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Introduction
Global Water Center (GWC), Center for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (CAWST), and the Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN) conducted a Rural Water Capacity Needs Assessment.

The assessment utilized a customized survey (ANNEX 1 Survey) to investigate capacity needs, qualitatively exploring:


a)    job category responsibilities and duties, and

b) recent inquiries for assistance within the past six months.
The survey was branched into two directions. In one branch, people working in the day-to-day operations of getting water safely to the communities responded to a set of questions (including their job responsibilities, duties, and queries from their staff; preferred methods of solving issues; and access to technologies). The second branch combined two groups: those working in supporting roles (who support individuals, teams, and institutions that provide water to rural communities) and those who defined themselves as working in other parts of the rural water sector. The second branch answered queries about the teams they support, their preferred means to respond, competency gaps, and jobs they feel are most difficult to fill. In the remainder of this report, we will refer to these two branches of groups as those working in day-to-day roles and those in supporting/ other roles.


This report presents findings and recommendations based on the analysis of 280 (N 2801) completed responses (ANNEX 3 analysis process). Most of the respondents (73%) fit in the combined supporting/other role (Figure 1). The respondents working in day-to-day roles were divided into job categories; the majority representing engineers (47%), supervisors (26%), and community development workers (12%) (ANNEX 2–Demographics).
 

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