DMT SOUTHERN SUDAN – WASH TRAININGS
Topic:
Water Safety Plans: Step 5: Planning for action
Step No:
5
Level No:
1
Author:
Claire Simmons
Last Updated:
February 2010
Action plan poster for activities
Explain that we have looked at what we can do to make sure we have clean water sources for all the community.
We now need to work out who will be responsible for taking action at the water source so that it becomes clean and
stays clean. Each of the solutions for the source part of the chain link is an action. We can therefore use these
pictures for what we will do.
Take the pictures of the solutions for actions at the water source from the last flip chart paper – only the
ones that were easy to do and medium to do (not the difficult-to-do ones). Provide the group with a
piece of flip chart paper and some blue-tack or glue. Give the pictures to the group, using these words:
‘Stick the action pictures onto a piece of flip chart paper. Then work out for each activity who in your group (the
WASH Committee) will be responsible for taking the action. Write their name underneath the action picture. Then
work out when they will take action (every day or when it breaks, or every month etc) and write this above the action
picture. Make sure that each person in the group agrees, and take into account the gender roles we worked out
earlier.’
Give the group 30 minutes for this task.
When the action plan poster is complete, get each group to explain the activities they are taking and
what the action is. Allow the group to discuss whether they agree with the activities.
Planning posters for community financial contribution
Explain that action to keep the water source clean may require some money: for example, for repairing the
borehole when it is broken. If this is the case, then those who use the water source should contribute
financially to the activity.
One person in the group therefore needs to be responsible for collecting the money from the community and
recording the money collected and the money spent.
Print out the money picture in Tools: Step 5: Level 1: No 1 and give it to the group. Ask them to stick the
action picture onto their flip chart plan and write the name of the person who is responsible for collecting the
money underneath the picture and when they will collect the money above the picture (eg every month or
when repairs are needed, etc).
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