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Presentation by Pay Drechsel at the session entitled: Learning from #fails in water and energy at World Water Week 2014 in Stockholm, Sweden.
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From Guinea Pigs
and White Elephants
Pay Drechsel
Learning from #Fails in Water and Energy; Stockholm 2014
ANYTHING IN COMMON ?
• Despite its size not easy to spot
• Lazy character, • Hardly in any statistics
Elephas fiasco
Cavia experimenta
• Moves in herds, but seldom in the same direction
• Very noisy, can bite• If they misbehave, hardly
in any statistics
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White Elephant Safari, Ghana
MY FAVORITE WHITE ELEPHANT
Compost Station1980-2010Fully mechanized mismatch: lack of electricity, water, and trained staff resulted in an early breakdown.
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WASTEWATER AND FAECAL SLUDGE TREATMENT PLANTS
IN GHANA
Operational Status
How many of them work ?
LESSONS: REASONS FOR THE RUN-TO-FAILURE TRAJECTORY
• Frequent and long power cuts affecting pumps• Decentralization of responsibility but not capacity• Institutional ownerships with other priorities
(Ministries of Health, Defense, Education, …)• No qualified O&M staff and low institutional
incentives for good maintenance• Big budget gaps & slow cash flow• Etc.
Murray, A. and Drechsel, P. 2011. Why do some wastewater treatment facilities work when the majority fail? Case study from the sanitation sector in Ghana. Waterlines 30 (2): 135-149
2012
Are we learning?
Korle Lagoon
Photo: Rebecca Tharme/IWMI
BEFORE: Korle Lagoon Ecological Restoration Project (KLERP) 1995-2005 ($89m)
Photo: Rebecca Tharme/IWMI
AFTER: Korle Lagoon Ecological Restoration Project (KLERP) 1995-2005 ($89m)
... so much about ecological restoration
Ca. 1000 m3/day
Lavender Hill
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1990-1996
Alternative treatment plants are under construction and already partially up!
current
Welcome to Labadi Beach
You won’t forget it
Photo by Stig Nygaard
• Participatory action research• Implementation, roll-out, …
Something about Guinea Pigs
Examples• Farmers should adopt safer wastewater
irrigation practices.• Communities should stop open defecation.• Households should adopt dry toilets etc.
‘Failure’The target group does not implement the idea. (internal/external reasons, like different values, missing risk awareness, high opportunity costs, …..)
Failure or Success ?
ERDOS ECO-TOWN PROJECTN = 3000
OPEN DEFECATION FREE COMMUNITIES
www.communityledtotalsanitation.org/sites/communityledtotalsanitation.org/files/Factors_ODF_EastJava.pdf
N= 2,000 communities (700,000 people)
Only 35 percent of all ‘triggered communities’had become ODF
10,000 scientists and staff in 15 CGIAR centers
CGIAR Reform TowardsStrongerOutcomeDelivery
REFORM NEEDED TO AVOID
CGIAR
THANK YOU VERY MUCH
• Guinea pig: A person or thing used as a subject for experiment.
• White elephant: A possession that is/got useless, especially one that is expensive to maintain or difficult to dispose of.