Project: Integrated Agriculture, Clean Water Supply, Environmental Sanitation and Water Catchment Project
Location: Rukungiri, Kanungu and Mitooma Districts, South Western Uganda
Key Result Area: Improved household access to clean water, sanitation, hygiene, environmental protection, and livelihoods for smallholder farmers.
Donor/Partners: GORTA through Self Help Africa, implemented by LADA Uganda
Download: Final Evaluation Report (PDF)
Overview
The Water and Livelihood Project (2013–2016) was designed as a follow up to the LADA-WATSAN initiative to address gaps in safe water access, sanitation, food and income insecurity, and water source protection in rural communities of Rukungiri, Kanungu and Mitooma districts. Funded by GORTA through Self Help Africa, the project aimed to:
Strengthen partner capacity to sustain grassroots activities.
Increase access to clean and safe water for 1,452 households (approx. 8,712 people) and 7 sub-counties.
Improve hygiene and sanitation knowledge, attitudes, and practices in 3,600 households and 8 schools.
Conserve and protect water catchment areas surrounding 41 water sources.
Build and strengthen community structures to sustain project benefits.
As the independent evaluator, Partnership for Development Capacity Consult (PDCC) Limited was contracted to conduct the Final Evaluation of the programme. Specifically, PDCC:
Assessed project achievements against set objectives, outputs, and outcomes.
Evaluated programme relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability using OECD-DAC criteria.
Applied a longitudinal evaluation approach, including treatment and control group comparisons.
Conducted extensive field observations, household surveys, FGDs, and sampling of water sources.
Documented lessons learned, best practices, challenges, and recommendations to inform future WASH and livelihood programming.
Impact
Increased clean water access to thousands of rural households, reducing reliance on unsafe sources.
Improved hygiene and sanitation practices in both households and schools, especially benefiting women and girls.
Strengthened community based water source committees and grassroots structures for sustainability.
Enhanced protection of catchment areas, supporting long term water security.
Built evidence for scaling integrated WASH and livelihoods approaches across Uganda.
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