Facilitating Community Water Supply Treatment

Résumé du livre

The author concludes the study by proposing a FLAIR-based approach, adapting the concept of learning projects developed in TRANSCOL, to create appreciation of the needs and desires of stakeholders and help them to gain insight into problems and to participate in solutions. Process facilitation, using participatory tools, is the corner stone for every water project and for innovation in the sector. This requires that sector staff come to grips with key concepts such as, soft-system thinking, sustainable and equitable financing, efficient water use, and water quality, and either learn about process facilitation or involve process facilitators. In addition, a FLAlR-based approach sets out to introduce new concepts or to enhance sector performance in a broader sense. This converts some mainstream projects into 'parallel learning projects'. These become theatres of innovation -learning spaces in which key actors can experiment and learn about new approaches, strategies and technologies and subsequently feed this learning back to mainstream implementation. The essence is to involve the stakeholders, particularly including the political and management levels, in meaningful discourse about problems and solutions and about scaling-out and scaling-up of innovations that contribute to solving 'their' problem, taking their 'stakes' into account.