International Educationeers: Creating a More Sustainable Approach to Water Development Projects (original) (raw)

2013

Abstract

While the number of international community development projects funded by agencies abroad has skyrocketed, progress on sustainability and community acceptance has not maintained pace with the technical advances. The WASH Sustainability Charter was initiated in 2011, and seeks to address the issues of long-term sustainability of projects through a charter document. [1] The charter focuses on five areas of sustainability: strategy and planning, governance and accountability, service delivery support, financial management, reporting and knowledge- sharing. Our framework provides support in accomplishing these goals. This project proposes a new framework, see figures 1 and 2 below, for community education that complements technically- oriented international development projects. Our framework challenges the premise that technical implementation and construction should precede education and monitoring; and instead argues that properly designed target-based education modules can prepare ...

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