Sustainability of water supplies in remote rural communities is problematic and resource consuming. CARE has a long history of working hand in hand with remote rural communities and devising programmes tailored to their needs. The author presents in a journal article [1], an intervention that integrates development of water supplies and sanitation, with operation and maintenance skills development and training of health promoters that can educate from within the community that ensures the sustainability of drinking water supply systems in rural communities. The training used is innovative in that it uses a series of video-workshops which are found to be particularly useful in communities with high illiteracy rates.

[1] Campos, M. (2008). Making sustainable water and sanitation in the Peruvian Andes : an intervention model. Journal of water and health ; vol. 6, no. S1 ; p. s27-s31. doi: 10.2166/wh.2008.00034

Contact: Marco Campos, CARE Peru, mcampos@care.org.pe, http://www.care.org.pe

Tags: capacity development, hygiene promotion, information and communication, sanitation, water supply