La documentation du processus est une des composantes de l’équipe WASHCost. Il ya aussi la composante communication, la recherche et la coordination.

1. 20091103 WASHCost Burkina Faso
WASHCost project Process
Documentation
The case of Burkina Faso

2. 20091103 WASHCost Burkina Faso
Definition of process documentation
Process documentation methodology
steps
Major events documented
Process documentation methodologies
Zoom in on field realities
Outline

3. 20091103 WASHCost Burkina Faso
Attend meeting
when relevant event and when agenda allows
Develop documentation topics with
team members
Go into the field with research team
Interview actors
Participants, interviewers, users, organisers, etc
Record opinion, actions, lessons
in a note book or a camera
Save findings in a document
report, presentation, photo stories…
Share with relevant people
Process documentation
methodology steps

4. 20091103 WASHCost Burkina Faso
Definition of process documentation
‘Process documentation is an approach
that tracks events and happenings,
discerns underlying reasons and
highlights issues that need action’.

5. 20091103 WASHCost Burkina Faso
Major events documented
 Learning Alliance meetings
 Pilot data collections in country rural and
periurban areas
 M&L process: Interviews with 6 LA members
and 2 non LA members
 Work session with LA member
Representative of the Ministry of Land and Decentralisation

6. 20091103 WASHCost Burkina Faso
Learning Alliance meetings
Lessons from 2 Learning Alliance meetings
There is a great interest in the WASHCost
project in Burkina
Irregular representation from member
institutions means ceaselessly repeating
introduction of project to participant
Lessons from 3 Research / Task Force group meetings
Local institutions are indispensable in
developing a viable research methodology
and in accessing data in the field
acting as intermediaries

7. 20091103 WASHCost Burkina Faso
Pilot data collection in rural and
periurban areas
Main lessons from 2 pilot data collections in rural and
peri-urban areas
 Effective process documentation requires one to
be in the field: we cannot document a process
while standing outside of it
 Effective involvement of rural and peri-urban
populations requires additional communication
and advocacy to inform them of research
objectives and relevance for them
 The time of year (eg rainy season) significantly
influences the progress and outcome of research

8. 20091103 WASHCost Burkina Faso
M&L process documentation
Interview key LA actors
(Country Coordinator and Research Director)
Lessons:
 Setting up the LA and/or Task Force is
a process
 LA management: Keeping actors
involved in the framework has been a
success so far but remains a major
challenge

9. 20091103 WASHCost Burkina Faso
M&L process documentation
Lessons from Interviews with 6 LA members
and 2 non-LA members
 LA members have increasing willingness to
be involved in WASHCost activities
 Non LA members approve the WASHCost
approach and are interested
 WASHCost is expected to increase its
visibility in the sector
 Face-to-face interview provides warm
feedback on functioning of the LA

10. 20091103 WASHCost Burkina Faso
Contact with the LA members
1 work session with LA member
Representative Ministry of Land and Decentralisation
 There is an ongoing decentralisation of water and
sanitation facilities and services management
responsibilities at country level.
 The WASHCost team is encouraged to increase
contact with grassroots (to widespread the
WASHCost approach) and local elected bodies (to
access research data).

11. 20091103 WASHCost Burkina Faso
Main outputs generated
Reports,
Minutes,
Diaries,
Newsletter items,
Translated documents,
Presentations,
Etc.

12. 20091103 WASHCost Burkina Faso
The use of multiple water sources by
rural inhabitants during the rainy season
Drinking water from the well
Zoom in on a field reality
Washing clothes
in the river

13. 20091103 WASHCost Burkina Faso
The use of multiple water sources by rural
inhabitant during the rainy season
Well water for all domestic uses
Zoom in on a field reality
Interviewer awaiting users

14. 20091103 WASHCost Burkina Faso
Analysis
 In Aouréma (a village in the North), September pilot
started with the quantification of water volumes
served from the stand pipes and boreholes.
 Water is sold at all standpipes but some users lack
means to afford the quantities they need.
 Though water is free at boreholes, people find it
easier to fetch from a well than using all their
strengths in pumping (a borehole).
 Only one person can fetch water at a time at the
borehole instead of three or more at the well,
according to its size

15. 20091103 WASHCost Burkina Faso
Analysis
Well water has the best taste for some people
River water just requires you to bend and take it
A user may take standpipe water to cook, wash
dishes and drink but use well, river or rain water
(from sheets) to wash cloths and water animals
Standpipes are attended most in the dry season
As a consequence the team improvised a
questionnaire to assess water taken from wells

16. 20091103 WASHCost Burkina Faso
Water transportation and storage as
an open window on life standards
Zoom in on a field reality

17. 20091103 WASHCost Burkina Faso
Common water
transportation
assets

18. 20091103 WASHCost Burkina Faso
Common water storage assets

19. 20091103 WASHCost Burkina Faso
You must be thirsty now. Come and
take your share of water
Merci et à nous
revoir