ARIGA’S STAKEHOLDER PRELIMINARY RESULTS SHARING

WORKSHOP

CETRAD’S SOCIAL SURVEY ANALYSIS MAY 26TH 2014

World Agroforestry Centre (WAC), NAIROBISarah Ogalleh & Alex Oduor

Data collection clusters • Cluster 1: Gotu springs: near the Ewaso Ngiro River .

The spring is protected by fence (Isiolo county)

• Cluster 2: Kubikalo, Kom, Dimatho, Biliqo, Biliqo marara, Bulesa, Goda, Malkafunan, Merti (Isiolo County)

• Cluster 3: Malkagala, Basa (Isiolo County)

• Cluster 4: Modogash (remote urban setting) (Wajir County)

• Cluster 5: Habaswein: (Habaswein township- considered urban setting) (Wajir County)

• Cluster 6: Wajir: urban setting (Wajir County)

• *Cluster 7: Dadaab: refugee camp (not visited) (Garissa County)

Data collection clusters

METHODOLOGY

METHODS

• Household surveys (HH) (Total: 151)

• Expert Interviews (Total: 4)

• Key informant Interviews (KI) (Total: 30); WV:16, RWC: 2

• Focus group discussions (FGDs) (Total: 8)

Participant Observation, informal interviews

HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS • Targeted households from every cluster, closed

questions (Quantitative data), & open ended questions (Qualitative data).

• Language of communication – Swahili, Somali & Borana

Key informant interviewsTargeted the local leaders, local water service providers’ leadership, county leadership, development organizations (local and international NGOs); Water vendors, random water collectors

Focus group discussions (FGDs)• Mostly attended by 15-35 persons per meeting in

all the sites • Language of communication – English, Kiswahili,

Borana, Somali (with the help of a translator in different sites)

Expert Interviews • Targeted the water ministers – at county levels,

water experts – formerly at district levels – water engineers

PRELIMINARY RESULTS

Are households aware of the Merti Wajir Water Pipeline project, & where was the

information sourced?

Understanding of the Merti Wajir Water Pipeline Project

Who supports, who opposes, to what extent?

Categories of Supporters/Opposers

• High Interest – in favour of the Merti Wajir Water Pipeline project

• High interest – opposed to the project

• Low interest – neutral to the project

• Do not know/In doubt/unsure due to lack of information

Overview of reasons for supporting or opposing the project (summary)

A) High interest – in favour of the project

• The Wajir County Government –

• The governor, • the water minister• County commissioner • Local leadership in Wajir,

Habaswein, Modogash • NGO’s especially CRS,

CARITAS, Pastoral organization in Wajir, ADESO-Isiolo,

• Majority of Wajir community

Reasons for position – WASH -water sanitation and

health will be enhanced - dignity of people of Wajir –

now using bucket toilets- Political mileage (not

mentioned, may be a good reason for support)

What would make those supporting change their minds?

B) High interest: Opposed to the project

Persons/Institutions• Jiko la Akina mama women

group (Habaswein) – very powerful and vigilant

• Community in Habaswein, Dimatho, Biliqo, Bulesa

Reasons for position• Sustainability of the water

over the years

• ‘….We do not have any water, if there is any water underground, we should have it first. I understand that Wajir people have some salty water, at least they have some water, we don’t have any!...’

C) Low interest: Neutral• A few Individual

community members from Wajir (‘..why would they give us ‘their’ water, let us look for our own water’)

• Some of the community members at Gotu springs (“…if our chief has said its ok to take water to Wajir, I don’t have a problem…he has said it!”) (Gotu female household interviewee, April 2014)

Reasons for position • Need for exploration of

other alternatives for water sourcing other than the Merti Wajir Water Pipeline Project – ‘independence sort of feeling’

• Local leadership voice support

• The project will not affect them

D) Do not know/In doubt/unsure due to lack of information

Individual/community • Gotu local leadership

• Communities from Malkagalla, Bulesa, Basa

• Community in Merti

Reasons for the position • ‘We don’t know if the water

is taken to Wajir, it will affect our spring/our boreholes, if it will not, then we support, if it does, then we don’t support it, but we do not have information to help us make that decision’

• ‘We want information to be able to decide if we support or not!’

• Demand for payment for meeting attendance in some places.

• The poor road network • Communication barriers • Acclimatization related challenges – weather,

food that caused many of the team members to get sick

• Project names issues – ‘Merti Wajir water pipeline’ versus ‘Wajir project’ versus ‘Habaswein project’

Challenges

Conclusions • The proposed project of Merti Wajir Water

Pipeline Project is not known to majority of the persons in the 6 sites we visited. Out of the 6 clusters, only Wajir and Habaswein are well informed, but then for the wrong reasons.

• The other sites : Merti, Malkagala, Bulesa, Goda, Biliqo, Basa, Gotu are not aware of the project. Very few from these areas are aware of the project, but through ‘word of mouth’ & other unreliable sources.

Conclusions • The power of the local leadership to change the

perceptions of the people about the project – but it will take at least 6 months of in-depth negotiation

• The biggest obstacles to the project could be the Habaswein Community, mostly – Jiko la akina mama women group. Men from Habaswein and local leadership are not entirely against the project, and can be easily convinced to support the project with good reasons

Conclusions • ‘Could it be a pipe dream?’ The proposition to

explore other sources of water for Wajir, other than the Merti Wajir Water pipeline project can be mostly associated with doubt that the Merti Wajir Water Pipeline project will ever be ‘realized’.

Acknowledgements • Local communities from Wajir,

Habaswein, Modogash, Isiolo, Merti, Basa,Malkagalla, Bulesa, Goda, Malkafnan

• The local leadership – chiefs & sub-chiefs from the various clusters

• The water service providers – Merti, Basa, Bulesa

• Senator (Wajir), MP- Diriiye, Eng. Mohamed, Water Minister- Wajir & others

• ICRAF & CETRAD ARIGA staff • The Research & data entry team:

Shamsa, Fahriya, Abdifattah, Jillo, Abdi, Alex & Sarah, Dickson and Mercy

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