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in the original objectives, were on the impact af welX
construction, an the feasibilty and benefits OF supporting
camunity water cornittees and of cumunity participation fn
general.
4. Policy studies. ~bjectives for policy studies were not
changed, but broadened, as desc~ibed above, to become a
major set of objectives far the Unit.
Because the NWDC did not become a reality, the field work
planned as part of the 9ffort to create a groundwater database
was not possible. The objective of the Planning Unit then
became to create a camputerised database from the groundwater
data available to the project and to WDA.
2.3.5. Actual Achievements.
Some af the revised objectives were achisved, others not at
~ll, and still others to a Limited degree. Computer systems and
databases have been set up and are in use, the "packagedw
systems have been created, new data has been collected and
analysed, and a number of local staff have been trained. The
actual achievements are described by category below:
1. Planning.
Attempts to eataSlish planning schedules for all WDA
resources did not prove possible. This required that
WDA department managers and regional directors provide
a regular flow of information to the Planning Unit on
inventories, staffing , and budgets. Two
questionnaires ware circulated for this purpose,
however, the information was not forthcoming. Without
a detailed knowledge of the resources available and
the maintenance caxmftments, ik was not possible to
devise drilling and maintenance programs.
A11 water quality data collected during the project
has been set up as a computer database, together with
most of the data on the borehales drilled by the
pxoj ect .
A technical monitoring system was designed and, given
the limited staff resources of the Planning Unit,
successfully field tested at sites in the Bay Region
and the Central Range. This is described in further
detail in Section 3.0.
A computerized mapping system was developed whereby
statistical data from surveys completed in Somalia can
Se used to determine population and water demand