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| Project Name: | PASOS III |
| Project Description: |
Working in partnership with Municipalities as counterpart agencies, Pasos II will facilitate the implementation of integrated community managed health-hygiene-water-sanitation projects in approximately 50 communities in Atlantida, Colon and Yoro departments, serving the needs of about 20,000 people. The project goal is to contribute to a sustained improvement in health and quality of life for rural communities in Honduras. The project purpose is to provide sustainable potable water and sanitation facilities, hygiene and health environment education, and protection of micro-watershed areas, for 20,000 rural and peri-urban inhabitants of the northern departments of Atlantida, Colon and Yoro in northern Honduras.
Four key strategies will guide the implementation process:
a) Promoting Community Management Approaches, community management approaches will be the basis for facilitating all community-focused activities in Pasos II; b) Promoting Community Monitoring through Participatory Learning Methods, communities will be involved in results-based monitoring of Project outcomes and longer-term impacts; c) Developing Community Management of Environment and Land Use Zoning, community capacity to manage land use planning and practices and protection of natural resources will be enhanced; d) Promoting Capacity Building of Local Municipalities, the Project will strengthen the capacity of local municipalities to manage community development projects using community management approaches.
Expected results at the outcomes level are:
a) Improved hygiene practices that reduce disease transmission.
b) Reduced incidence of diarrhea and other water-related diseases (skin infections, worm parasites, malaria) focusing on infants and children.
c) Communities are using community management approaches to plan, implement and monitor sustainable water and sanitation facilities.
d) Communities are managing environmental resources and land use planning.
e) Municipalities are playing a prominent role in managing community projects using community management approaches.
f) Women's leadership, decision-making and Project management capacities are improved.
Expected results at the output level are:
a) Water and sanitation systems constructed or rehabilitated in 50 communities.
b) Improved access to potable water and sanitation services for up to 20,000 individuals.
c) Water management committees established and active in all communities, managing Project activities: at last 30% of members are women.
d) User-fees collected and well managed by Water Management Committees.
e) Community Environment and Land-use Planning Committees established and active in all communities; alt least 30% of members are women.
f) Micro-watershed lands purchased with legal title to the communities
g) Micro-watershed areas designated or recognized as Protected Forest Zone.
h) Community Environment Management Plans completed and approved by local Municipalities. |
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