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Community residents sade substantial contributions during
all stages oE the project. They include:
- Infamation on socioeconomic conditions, well operations
and pro3 ect ef f acts,
- Labor and materials for drilling, canstsuction and some
maintenance aperations*
- Food and cash contributions during drilling and
construction.
- Payment of user fees on a regular basis after pump
operations begin.
- Coardinatlon and supervision of villager contributions.
- Control af aninals around the civil works and cleaning
aE the starage tank.
- Procurement of diesel fvleL from WDA and other sources.
An illustrative list of some of these contributions is
presented In the tables below. They cover labor inputs and
gifts of cash, animals and staples to work crews far drilling,
pump tests and construction.
Table 2.2.1: Cozurrlunity contribution to Drilling Crews
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# vilf age Average Cash vaXz;e average
in sample cash payment of animals cash value
(So.Sh.) (So-Sh. ] (So-Sh.)
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CAP?* 14 8,000 19,000 27,000
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Nan-CAPf 7 3,300 5,000 8,300
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* tammunities in which same meetings were held to promote local
garticbpatian 2nd organize well committees.
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The table above shows that cornunities where there was some
effort by soci~l scientists and/or technical stzff trained to
promote participation, the level of contributions in this phase
of construction was nore than three times higher than in those
where the CAPP approach was not used. Data available for four
villages in which civil works were constructed reveals a similar
pattern and Xevel of contributions-