Pains Without Gains

A huge 5 years foreign funded project implemented covering the whole of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa aiming at provision of rural water supply and sanitation ended in 2009. The Project was designed to improve not only the existing water and sanitation services but also hygiene behavioral patterns amongst the beneficiaries. Active community participation including capital cost-sharing and full operation and maintenance (O&M) were the integral parts of participatory approach. A two months beneficiary assessment survey was conducted at the tail of the project attempting to assess the project's progress against its objectives by visiting the different areas and meeting the actual beneficiaries in the remote locations to find out their view point about the services provided through this project. The main objective of the study was to assess the level of success of the project interventions against the set objectives laid down in the project document. I was the Principal Researcher of the survey and following is the gist from the same