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".*.The AZ3 f;eoltk pxr3praz vi2i Se Implszented
ia the Bay, Togdher a>d Xudug regims and...wfXl
effectively rompzinent e xrter development
program by providing infomation regarding water
Some discasas and sanitation ... rI
Xn 1983, the 5BSf antkopolagbst cet with the expatriate
health prajact caordf naXor in Ba idaa and t3e discussf ons
fadicatsd EAat they would caoparste in the aullection of health
data fro= CCDP villages, In Juzy 2935, the *LE313 anthropalqiat
3aet with Dr. Rose, L'SAfD health officer, ar?.3 Or. X.T, Thomas,
Director of the Primary Heaftk Care Braject, in an attempt to
obtain epida=iological data. Bath stared they had no knowledge
af where such infomatian could 5e focnd, or even if studies bad
Seen carried out,
BacaQse unkes deve2upnsnr can resuLr in s~brtantial health
Se~efits as we31 as facilitate the transzission aE water borne
diseases, it is szrongly rec~~ended that USAID finance a short
term consultanr with field epfdeafology skills and ~frfcan
experience to dsveZop a strategy to nonitor and evaluate health
impacts, The work. should take abczt tva aonths.
Com~~nities fz which paxps are operating have ~ndergone
aany changes rhar appesr to be directry related ta the Large,
ax$ rellaS:~, supply 3f vater iro~ the CGDP wells. They Include
increases in t3e nuzber of pem.anent househslds, shops, schools
a26 trans~ortatlon. Perhaps the mst Inpartant impzct, and one
fiat adeqaately reflect& in tke qdan?Ftzttve results, is the new
level 35 security the residents have ak,>ut their lives and
com~zities * 53 past years, It gas not uncaZI=P.on for entire
villages tc move iz search of water when proPonged dry seasons
reduced i@caL m s to dust boxis, Even in normel dry seasons,
sezbers -f every f~zily zFezz zsst of their the collecting
water for docestXc coxsu~prion a ~ d 3erding animals to water.
The new wells have significantiy altered ~ h e eavixomental
situazion and kave stial;lated the canstzxctian of more durable,
structures 223 f5e pe=ment settlezent of hundreds of
f azll ies.
(if Poplatio~ an2 settleaenz cazterns,
The colLecrioz of zccxxare scatistical darz oz tke size and
distribuzlsz of zhe populatlzn I- So~alFa is GifficuLt and time
ccns*~~ix~ beta-~se of the diszersed setzlscent patten and
seas~~zl herdi~~ activities for fro2 the v%lLagc. Yiilage level
data was csl:ected 5y :he Xyotckq sacfcezononic research team,