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planner/co~puter expert for one month in June/Suly 1985.
Tk*.e Cansuitantsq ant3ropulogi:;t first visited the U nit for
six weeks in July/August 1985 to set up systems for monitoring
well sites and to tram the staff. He returned with an
assistant, fur the two rnanths of February and March 1986, a total
socioeconomic consultancy support of five and a half man-months.
An IBX nicru-computer was made available to the Unit in
ApriL 1985. Suitable office fzcilities were prepared by the end
of May, and the computer i~stalle3. Through an agreement with
USAID, a second aicro-computer gas purchased to support the
Private Sector Study undertaksn by LBfI, This second
micro-computer was moved to the Planning Unit in August 1985.
The configuration of the micro-computers, their performance, and
a description of the sa2tware provided, is discussed belaw fn
Section 2,3.6,
2.3.3.3. Actual Resouxces Provided by the NwBC.
As of %he date of writing, the hWDC had not yet been
established. It follows, therefore, that none of the expected
resources, nos the cooperation planned, have xaterialfsed,
2.3.4. Modif 5 cation of Objectives.
The most significant factor which caused modification of
the original objectives was the acute shortage of qyaliffed
staff available to the Planning Unit. The lack of field staff
forced changes in the sociological evaluation component as early
as July 1985. Tbe full range of other objectives continued to
be addressed until the end of 1385, by which time staff
consisted of one person, It appeared highly unlikely that the
situation waeLd be improved before the end of the project, and
extremely unlikely beyond project termination. The modified
objectives are described belcw:
1, flannfng, By 1984, eke site selecti~n and cornunity
participation process established during the first phase of
the project had ceased to function. In reality, site
selection, both for the project and far the WDA, became a
purely tschnica; activity, based on the analysis of
hydrogeological data. For the CGDP, the area in which the
well was tg be located had been designated by the stazf of
3mDP or CRPP. For KDA, the zrea of the site is specified by
the National Water Committee, or by the ministry ar agency
wbich is co2tractfng w ith WDA to construct the well.
In view of the shortage of staff, the objectives of the
Planning Unit shifted away from routine implementation of
the site selection process. The objective became to test