Update from the Working Group on Tech Assessment, including the new Hand Pump Assessment Tool.

1. WASH
Technology
Assessment
an
Accord
WASH
Alliance
working
group
update
October
30,
2013
//
Grand
Rapids,
MI

2. Stephen
Clarke,
Ronnie
Kaweesa
Rose
McPherson
Brent
Hample,
Dean
Rees
Jordan
Smoke
Jonathan
Mitchell
Sarah
Young
ParMcipants

3. Purpose
Develop
a
tool
that
assesses
the
opMons
in
each
WASH
technology
product
category
and
offers
decision
guidance.
Product
Categories
of
Interest
Hand
Pumps
Water
Purifica,on
Sanita,on
Tech
So2ware
Approaches

4. Process
• Select
one
product
category
-­‐
Handpumps
• Research
exisMng
opMons/resources
• Establish
criteria
categories
• Develop
key
evaluaMve
quesMons
• First
draV
of
tool
• Cross-­‐organizaMonal
input
–
parMcularly
from
field
perspecMve
– Rural
Water
Supply
Network
• Incorporate
input
into
second
draV
of
tool
• Deliver
draV
tool
to
Accord
WASH
Alliance
members

5. Product

6. New
leadership
encouraged
• Develop
assessment
tools
for
other
product
categories
idenMfied
last
year:
Water
PurificaMon,
SanitaMon
Technology,
etc.
• Improve
the
user
interface
of
the
tool
and
integrate
separate
product
categories
into
larger
tool
• Incorporate
newer
hand
pump
opMons
into
the
Hand
Pump
SelecMon
tool?
• CollaboraMon
through
RWSN?
–
further
development
of
hand
pump
tool,
develop
similar
resource
for
Boreholes,
Manually
Drilled
Wells.
• Related
tool:
h^p://washtechnologies.net/en/
• Others?