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and modify the oricinal cornunity pasticipation element of
this process as a "packagee, to be implemented by any
project or aqency with the necessary staff and facilities.
This is more correctly categarised as sociuecanomic
monitoring and evaluation, described below.
The revised planning objective consisted of maintaining a
database of a13 available social and technical infomatian
as a resource 50th for the various technical departwents of
WDA, and for program planners of other agencies. Planning
the effective utilization cf project and FDA resources, and
drf lling and maintenance programs, wouf d remain a maj or
abjective of the Unit.
One aspect of the planning responsibility af the WDA
Planning Unit was to monitor existing facilities. This
invalved monitoring the physical. installation at well sites,
bath far repairs and maintenance purposes, and to gauge the
acceptability to the community of the facilities provided.
2+ Economic analysis. It was realised that the extent to which
monitoring of benefits and impacts could be carried out
would be severely limited by staff shortages. Furthemore,
it was argued that because neither the project, nor WDA,
were responsible for site selection, they should not be
responsible, on a xoutine basis, for monitoring and
evaluatior of benefits and impacts. These evaluations,
where the wells constructed are part of a broader program of
rural development implemented by another acpncy, should be
carried out as part of the overall monitoring and evaluation
effort of thase agencies, Under this category, the focus of
the Pianning Unit would therefore be upon cost acalysis.
3. Socioecanamic ~onitoring and avalustian. The same rationale
applies to the monitoring and evaluation of social impact as
to economic impact, and the two are interdependent, It
would not be realistic to expect the WDA Planning Unit to be
able to monitor and evaluate the socioeconomic impact sf a
large nubex of the wells constructed throughout Somalia.
Nor, in most cases, would it be appropriate. This function,
then, was seen more clearly as a research function of WDA,
The objective became to provide "packagedtt systems far:
af the comm~nity participation process, and,
b) socfoeconomic monitorizg and evaluation,
which could be adopted by any other agency concerned to
measure the inpact of well installation. The WDA Planning
Unit, so far as its facilities allowed, would be responsibze
for carrying out selective studies using, and further
developing, these packages. The areas of concentration, as