501- Community Application for EWB-USA Program/1 st Project

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1 501- Community Application for EWB-USA Program/1 st Project Thank you for your interest in submitting an application to start a new community program with EWB-USA. Before and during the completion of this application, please click here to review the 501 instructions. This is a separate document also available on our website. The instructions are comprehensive and include information such as the due date, response time, review criteria, and explanation of each section below. Section A: General Program Information 1. Today s Date: 04/30/ Please check one of the following: _X_Community Program Application submitted by community with no EWB-USA chapter affiliation (Open Program) Community Program Application submitted by community with proposed EWB-USA chapter Please provide the following information if a chapter of EWB-USA has agreed to submit a 502 Chapter Application to Acquire an EWB-USA Program for this program: a. Name of Chapter(s): b. Chapter Contact Person: c. Chapter Address: d. Describe how community members initially came in contact with this EWB-USA chapter. e. If this is a student chapter, does the university/college allow students to travel to the destination country? Yes No 3. Country: Bolivia 4. Region within Country: (for example state or department or province): La Paz Department, Larecaja Province. 5. Municipality (or City or Town or District): Sorata Municipality. 6. Community: Unificada, Teneria-Manzanani 7. Latitude and Longitude of Community: Google Earth may be used to determine coordinates.use degrees and decimal degrees for latitude, longitude. Latitude: Longitude: Has this community or local NGO previously worked with an EWB-USA Chapter? _X_ No Yes, Which Chapter(s)? 2014 Engineers Without Borders USA. All Rights Reserved Page 1 of 16

2 Section B: In-Country Contact Information Please identify the primary in-country contacts who will be involved in this project. It is important to identify the local contacts who will work and communicatedirectly with the EWB-USA team.either an e- mail address or phone number is requiredfor each contact listed below. 1. Primary Contact Person(This person may be contacted if there are questions from the Application Review Committee regarding the proposed program) a. Name of PrimaryContactPerson:Carlos Ernesto Aguilera Miranda / Carlos Augusto Valdez Beltran b. Position/Title and Affiliation: Project Manager/Director of operations. c. Contact carlos.aguilera@engineersinacion.org/ Carlos.valdez@engineersinaction.org d. Contact Phone: +(591) / 1(918) e. Contact Address:Aspiazu 775 P1, Z. Sopocachi 2. Community-Based Organization (CBO) a. Name of CBO: Sindicato Agrario Unificada, Teneria-Manzanani b. Website of CBO:N/A c. Name of Primary Contact Person (This person must live in the community):salome Huanca Torrez d. Position/Affiliation with CBO:Justice Secretary of the Sindicato Agrario e. Contact N/A f. Contact Phone:+(591) g. Contact Address:N/N Manzanani 3. Local Non-Governmental Organization (NGO)(If the NGO is U.S.-based, please provide contact information for the staff member(s) located in-country who will work and communicate with the chapter) a. Name of Local NGO: Fundación Ingenieros en Acción(FIEA,or EIA in English). b. Website of NGO: c. Name of PrimaryContactPerson: Carlos Ernesto Aguilera Miranda / Carlos Augusto Valdez Beltran d. Position/Affiliation with NGO: Project Manager/Director of operations. e. Contact carlos.aguilera@engineersinaction.org/ Carlos.valdez@engineersinaction.org f. Contact Phone: +(591) / 1(918) g. Contact Address:Aspiazu 775 P1, Z. Sopocachi. 4. Local Government Contact(Authority with jurisdiction over the community and/or project) a. Name of Government Entity/Authority (for example, Mayor s Office): Direction of Construction and Infrastructure of Sorata Municipality b. Name of Primary Contact Person: Hernan Ochoa Romero c. Position/Affiliation with Government: Director of construction and infrastructure d. Contact nanochoaromero@gmail.com e. Contact Phone: f. Contact Address: N/N 5. Other Contact Person (if different than above contacts) a. Name of Contact Person:Tiburcio Chino Quispe b. Position/Affiliation:habitant contact in TeneriaManzanani c. Contact d. Contact Phone: e. Contact Address:N/N Manzanani 2014 Engineers Without Borders USA. All Rights Reserved Page 2 of 16

3 Section C: Communication Plan with EWB-USA Chapter Please explain how the community and project partners will communicate with an EWB-USA chapter. 1. Who is the main contact in-country for the EWB-USA chapter? The main community contact will be Salome Huanca Torrez, the justice secretary of the community, and the main contact in-country as FIEA Project Manager is Carlos Ernesto Aguilera Miranda. 2. How will communication be carried out? In what language? How often? The EWB chapter will be able to call Salome directly when needed, though most communication will be through FIEA whose project managers speak both English and Spanish. The FIEA project manager is available at a U.S. number through an internet IP phone, internet conference calls, cellphones, and by . This communication will be in English, whereas communication with the community must be in Spanish and Aymara. 3. How fast and reliable is communication with this contact person? Mrs. Salome has a cellular phone number and can be contacted at all times. The Project Manager can be contacted via cellular phone, too. He can schedule regular internet conference calls with or without the community. Section D: Partner Organizations Please address the following for each organization involved with the project(s), including the CBO, local NGO, and local government entity. 1. Presence, roles, and responsibilities in community The Sindicato Agrario Comunidad Unificada Teneria-Manzanani is the closest thing the community has to a local government. The community s main economic resource is agriculture; hence the name Agrarian Union. The highest position is the Secretario General or General Secretary, similar to a mayor in a small town; he has a council integrated by a justice secretary, sports secretary and financial secretary all of those positions are not elected but assigned by the community, Those positions changes every year; this not really a position of power, it s a position of responsibility. Their main job is to organize the community and lead them whenever the community needs to work together. There are usually 8-10 people that hold titles within the Union, but all families in the community are affiliated to it. 2. Ability to work with the community to identify stakeholders, community-wide priorities, and ensure broad participation The Sindicato Agrario Comunidad Unificada Teneria-Manzanani is democratically elected by all of the community members every year. They are responsible to organize all of the community labor, identify the problems and manage them to try to solve it. As this Agrarian Union is democratically elected they can summon all of the community members for different tasks. 3. Roles and responsibilities for the proposed community program with EWB-USA To coordinate with the EWB-USA all of the different aspects of the project, receive the EWB-USA team, and to offer lodging when they will be on site. Cooperate with the logistics and to raise the 5% required for the project. Helping to build the project designed by the EWB-USA team and to offer all of the required available information for the designs Engineers Without Borders USA. All Rights Reserved Page 3 of 16

4 Fundación Ingenieros en Acción 1. Mission and vision of the organization Mission: To improve quality of life for Bolivian indigenous communities through partnerships between engineering organizations and communities. Vision: Enabling engineering solutions around the world through sustainable partnerships, improving the quality of life for those in need. 2. Presence, roles, and responsibilities in community FIEA process includes listening to all actors, helping the community prioritize their needs, identifying applicable resources, and motivating community engagement. 3. Ability to work with the community to identify stakeholders, community-wide priorities, and ensure broad participation FIEA is a small non-profit whose main work consists of facilitating water projects that are partnerships between Bolivian communities and foreign organizations. FIEA works in others communities in this region, so we have the knowledge of the area and we know the different cultural aspects of the people in the community. 4. Roles and responsibilities for the proposed community program with EWB-USA FIEA will not provide direct funding, but provides engineering services and logistical support according with the team needs. Section E: Community Program Goals and Information 1. Community Program Goals: In the table below, identify what the community hopes will change through this program. EWB-USA Change Element Change in public health Change in environmental health Change in behavior Change in access to services Change in technical knowledge related to projects Change in community organization Change in community self-advocacy Community Goal (indicate with an X) X X X X 2014 Engineers Without Borders USA. All Rights Reserved Page 4 of 16

5 2. Please describe the community that is seeking assistance. Comunidad Unificada, Teneria Manzanani were created as a one community when they saw they don t have the enough resources as a two communities. Their principal income resources come from their farming activity. They produces corn, wheats, potatoes, beans, etc. They raise sheep, llama, goats, etc. and the destination of their excess production is the main town in Sorata where is the offices of the municipally. The permanent population in Teneria Manzanani is 92 people. Basically in the community doesn t have access to a sanitation system and this is a problem because they went anywhere to defecate and normally is near theirhomes, this affects the crops and contaminates the water. The road to the community is free all year but it has some difficult to access. The community is in the middle of a mountain landscape and the people of the community speaks Aymara and Spanish. The community is about 190 km from La Paz city. The road is about 90% paved and 10% dirt road. The average time to get there is around 4 hours this is mainly because the road has a lot of turns. According to 2012 INE (Bolivian National Statistics Institute) census data, the poverty in the Municipality of Sorata is 80.3%. 3. What are the community s challenges that this program is intended to address? Do most members of the community see these as their primary concerns?what process was used by the community to make this determination? The community s challenges that this program intended to address are: - The community doesn t have a sanitation system because of that they are requiring to develop one program, first related with access to water, and after for a sanitation system, they found some funds for an micro irrigation system, and they thought it was a good idea because that water they can drink it too. But if they don t have a sanitation system like letrines, they contaminate the water sources. FIEA took some Petrifilm 3M samples from the microirrigation system to test the presence of E. Coli, the results were negative but it showed presence of coliforms. - This program intends to provide all of the families from the community the access to a sanitation system providing those eco-latrines and this technology that will permit the people from the community clean their own latrines and teach them how to dispose the organic material. - Furthermore, FIEA applies technics to be sure what really are the principal worries of the Urbanization and made a prior-evaluation of the quality of their water, and ask the community some question regarding health issues. - FIEA has a specific methodology to evaluate the community before presenting this community to EWB-USA; this is because we need to guarantee the sustainability of the programs. 4. Describe the proposed program to address the challenges stated above. Why is this program necessary, and how will it improve conditions for the community? This program will have to provide the community the access to a sanitation system. This system has to bewith an appropriate technology that allows them to clean it periodically. This would increase the time of use of the system Engineers Without Borders USA. All Rights Reserved Page 5 of 16

6 This program is necessary because according to the United Nations the progress in sanitation and improved hygiene has greatly improved health, the lack of it carries the risk of infectious disease, particularly to vulnerable groups such as the very young, the elderly and people suffering from diseases that lower their resistance. Poorly controlled waste also means daily exposure to an unpleasant environment. The buildup of fecal contamination in rivers and other waters is not just a human risk: other species are affected, threatening the ecological balance of the environment. The discharge of untreated wastewater and excreta into the environment affects human health by several routes: By polluting drinking water; Entry into the food chain, for example via fruits, vegetables or fish and shellfish; Bathing, recreational and other contact with contaminated waters; By providing breeding sites for flies and insects that spread diseases. Once a sanitation system is installed it will ensure hygienic excreta, secure disposal and a clean and healthful living environment both at home and in the community.it will provide the access to a basic sanitation including safety and privacy in the use of these services Engineers Without Borders USA. All Rights Reserved Page 6 of 16

7 Section F: First Proposed Project Information 1. Please check ONE project type that best describes the services and needs addressed by the first proposed project. Water Supply _X Sanitation (examples - latrine, gray water system, black water system, etc.) Structures (examples - bridge, building, etc.) Civil Works (examples - road, drainage, dam, etc.) Energy (examples - fuel, electricity, etc.) Agriculture (examples- irrigation, fish farm, crop processing equipment, soil improvement, etc.) Information Systems (example computer service) 2. Provide a brief description of the first proposed project and explain why this project is necessary. Please consider the following issues: a. What previous work has been done to solve the problem? At the beginning the communities are so small with a small population because of that they don t have access to services due the required population for a government project, when they became in only one community Unificada Teneria-Manzanani they had access for support from government because of that they have micro irrigation system, because the government can gave that, but even that they still looking for support for a water system and sanitation. They found one organization wich is helping to implement water system but no for a sanitation system. b. What potential solution to the problem has been identified, if any? Is the community open to other possible solutions, based on suggestions from the EWB-USA chapter? The name of the proposed project is: Letrinas Ecológicas, Una forma Digna de Vivir (Eco-Latrines, A Dignified Way of Living). The first proposed project that the community is asking for is to build Eco-Latrines for all of the families in the community.this is necessary because Ecological sanitation (EcoSan) is based on three fundamental principles: preventing pollution rather than attempting to control pollution; rendering the urine and feces safe for reuse; and using the safe products for agricultural purposes. This approach can be characterized as sanitize-and-recycle (Winblad et.al. 2004), aiming at closing the nutrients loop. Ecological toilets use a minimum amount of water or no water at all. The urine diverting toilets are designed to keep feces and urine (and also possibly water used for anal cleansing) separate, to permit their separate disposal. Most of the nitrogen contained in excreta is in the urine that transmits few of the diseases associated with human waste. (Schistosomiasis and typhoid are notable exceptions in certain areas). Once urine and feces are kept separate, urine can be used as a fertilizer without treatment, with minimal precautions needed to protect health. Fecal matter will also remain dry and therefore easier and more convenient to manage. Increases in storage time, temperature, dryness, ph, ultraviolet radiation, and competing natural soil organisms are amongst the environmental factors used to enhance the treatment and composting the fecal matter. 1 The community is open to other possible solutions from the EWB-USA chapter c. What specific assistance is the community seeking from EWB-USA that is not available locally? 1 World Bank Engineers Without Borders USA. All Rights Reserved Page 7 of 16

8 The community belongs to Sorata municipality, they can t answer to the entire request from the communities, because there are a lot of them and the municipality resource is not enough to answer all of them. Another problem is that the municipality does not have the proper number of technician to help all of the communities. Hence the community is seeking from EWB-USA the designs and the resources to buy materials to build eco-latrines in Teneria-Manzanani. d. Are materials for the proposed project likely to be found locally? Around the area of the project it can be found stones, all of the rest of materials can be found in the main town Sorata that is around 3 kilometers away. Special fittings can be bought from La Paz city and delivered to the place by FIEA. 3. Who within the community would benefit from the first proposed project? All of the population that lives permanently in Teneria-Manzanani would benefit from the first proposed project. 4. How many people will be affected by this project in a certain geographic region (please provide an estimated NUMBER of people affected -- not a description) a. Number of People Directly Affected: 70 b. Number of People Indirectly Affected:95 c. Geographic Area (5km radius, town, region etc): The towns of Teneria Manzanani, and the main town Sorata. 5. What do you expect the positive impacts from this project to be? The principal impact of this project will be providing a sanitation system to the communities, this will impact directly on the health of the people from the communities. Another positive impact is that the ecological toilets have the potential to produce valuable resources from excreta, while conserving and protecting water. 6. What might be the negative impacts? What could be done to lessen these negative impacts? The project could cause jealousy between families if some get their Eco-Latrines earlier than others. To reduce the negative impacts the community itself will determine the details of the work plan in terms of which families Eco-latrines get constructed first, and it will be clarified that everyone will benefit equally from the project based on the terms of the agreed-upon (and signed) project plan or memorandum of understanding. 7. Has the community requested assistance for this specific project from the government or other organizations? If so, please list the organizations, contact information for each, and explain the status of the request. No they have not. 8. Please list additional projects that may be undertaken as part of the overall EWB-USA program Engineers Without Borders USA. All Rights Reserved Page 8 of 16

9 Project Project #1 Project # 2 (If applicable) Project # 3 (If applicable) *Project Type(s) Eco-latrines. Solar showers Animal Production Section G: Project Ownership, Operation and Maintenance 1. Who will own the first proposed project? The communities will own the proposed project. Each family where the Eco-latrines will be built will own it. 2. Does the community own the land where the proposed project will be implemented? Yes, they own the land. 3. Will everyone in the community have access to the project, or only certain groups or areas in the community? How will the community ensure that the responsibility for and benefits of a project are shared as broadly as possible? All of the people who lives in the communities will have access to the project. The communities will organize in a way where all of the people have to respond for their responsibilities about the project in order to be taken into account for having a latrine. They know that not all of the eco-latrines will be done at once, so they will prioritize the people who fulfill their responsibilities in the project. 4. Who will be responsible for doing the maintenance and repairs of the project?who will pay for the maintenance and repair costs? The maintenance and repairs of the project is a responsibility of each benefited family.the cost involved in it will be covered by the beneficiaries. 5. Will there be a fee structure? Who will collect the fees and how will the money be managed?if certain groups cannot pay the fee, how will the community handle the situation? There will not be a fee structure. The communities will organize to monitor the status of the Eco- Latrines. After the implementation is done, FIEA will be able to inspect the eco-latrines as needed. Section H: Project Funding and Contributions 1. Please discuss the expected costs of the project. Please address the following: a. How much do you expect the first proposed project to cost, including labor, materials and equipment? 2014 Engineers Without Borders USA. All Rights Reserved Page 9 of 16

10 Estimated Cost for 36 letrines Labor $ 1,800 Materials $ 16,000 Equipment $ 880 Total $ 18,680 b. How will the community raise the minimum required 5% cash contribution for the project All of the benefited families from the communities will have to put their counterpart as a requirement for having an eco-latrine. The Community will check this situation prior the implementation trip and for the implementation trip they will have the list with all of the families that fulfill their required 5%. And the community always collects money for projects improving their lives so they had some funds to assign to the project if it needed. c. How will the community manage the funds to ensure security and transparency? Once the budget will be done per eco-latrine and the quantity of them to be built, the community will collect the amount for the number of eco-latrines that will be planned to build per implementation trip. They will be asked either to buy themselves a certain material or to buy with the project manager in charge. The person of the community in charge will give a report to the community in a meeting and will show the receipt to them. If the EWB team required that FIEA will collect their counterpart, the project manager will give to the community a receipt with the date, an amount of money received. d. What in-kind contributions will be provided by the community? This could include: unskilled labor, skilled labor, materials, transportation of materials, tool use for project, translation services, and food, lodging, or other logistical support for the chapter. The Communities can provide unskilled labor and materials that are available in the area (Stones) for their in kind contribution, and they are willing to provide support at any required time. They also will provide lodging through the use of a community center, or a house in the Urbanization, or a classroom. 2. What will the partner NGO contribute to the project? FIEA will not provide direct funding, but provides engineering and logistical support. 3. What will the local government contribute to the project? The local government it s going to be involved related to help the community to fund the 5% to assigned to the project, and the municipality has their own procedures to guarantee the transparency Section I: Logistics for EWB-USA Travel Team 1. What are the best months for the EWB-USA team to travel and work in the community? The Communities would prefer working on the project from AugusttoNovember. From January to March it would be possible but it is the rainy season. The worst time is December, January and February Engineers Without Borders USA. All Rights Reserved Page 10 of 16

11 FIEA is extremely busy June-August because all University EWB chapters want to travel in those months. If the FIEA Project Manager already has a trip planned when the chapter requests to travel, we require the chapter to choose other dates. Therefore, it is in the best interest in the chapter to schedule and reserve their trip dates early, so we can make all the required FIEA resources (car, sleeping bags, tools, etc.) available to the chapter. Rainfall Data FromSorata 2. What local accommodations are available for the EWB-USA team? The first and last day, the chapter will stay in La Paz, the average cost for a hotel is about $25 USD per person per day, the chapter will spend about $20USD on food per person per day. In the community the team can stay in a house or in the school, and there is no cost to this. FIEA will bring sleeping bags ($7USD/person/trip) and can bring small air mattresses as well. For the days in the community, the team will pay $25USD/person/day for the cost of a cook (trained in cooking for foreigners) who will travel with the team and prepare 3 hot meals/day. FIEA can also provide portable, solar-heated showers, cooking items and portable stove, portable water treatment, etc. 3. Please describe any safety hazards that may be faced by EWB-USA team members (security issues, health or medical issues, weather, insects, diseases, snakes, crime, land mines, transportation difficulties, etc.) The overall conditions of the area are very safe. The only concern for the chapter should be the high altitude (over 9000 feet) but even that is less than La Paz City, We have a great amount of experience with teams at high altitude and have specific recommendations to reduce the negative effects of the altitude. Roads can be unpredictable and hazardous in Bolivia, but FIEA takes all necessary precautions to ensure travel safety. The community told us about the presence of Conenose on the area, other than that the most common ailment identified by the community is catching a cold or flu. 4. What is the address and phone number for the nearest hospital or clinic? The nearest hospital approved by the US State Department is Clínica Del Sur in La Paz, in the zone Obrajes. It is on the main avenue, Avenida Hernando Siles, at 7 th street. Phone numbers are , , for the ER. This hospital is about a 4.5 hour drive from the project site. The other individual doctors listed online by the US Embassy in La Paz are very good as well, though some of the contact information is out of date. 5. Have people from the USA worked in the community or in a nearby community? If so, who, and in what capacity? 2014 Engineers Without Borders USA. All Rights Reserved Page 11 of 16

12 EWB-UC Davis team worked in the same municipality with a different community call Quinkucirca, this project was for implement a project to provide water for the community. Section J: Photos Figure 1: Some members of the community. Figure 2: Community meeting about project prioritizing their need Engineers Without Borders USA. All Rights Reserved Page 12 of 16

13 Figure 3: Food that the community invites when someone visits it. Figure 4: Leaders from the community signing the letters to EWB Engineers Without Borders USA. All Rights Reserved Page 13 of 16

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16 Appendix A: Criteria for NGO Owned Facility Projects Background One of the key principles of EWB-USA s community development model is that we support communitydriven and community owned projects. Given this approach to community development, NGO owned facilities present a unique challenge to our organization because they are distinct from our other projects. First of all, these projects are typically funded by a local or international NGO. In addition, this NGO is typically advocating on behalf of a group of people who access the facility, such as children; however, this group may not be driving the proposed project or partnership with EWB-USA. Finally, the ultimate ownership of the project is not with a community, but rather ownership lies with the partner NGO. While EWB-USA will continue to partner with these types of projects, we are concerned about their viability and sustainability, especially if outside donor funding is discontinued. Given these circumstances, as well as our desire to ensure the long-term sustainability and success of all projects, we have identified a specific set of requirements for NGO owned facility proposals. Instructions The applicant should provide responses to each of the criteria listed below. If the response to any of these criteria has already been addressed in the application above, please restate it. An application related to this type of facility will not be considered complete if the criteria have not been addressed. 1. NGO must demonstrate its past and future commitment to the facility, including financial support. 2. NGO must demonstrate that the facility is, or will be, legally registered and will be monitored by a government agency. 3. NGO, in collaboration with facility staff members, must demonstrate support for the proposed project, including taking primary responsibility for all operation and maintenance costs and logistics. 4. NGO must explain the plans for providing skilled and/or unskilled labor for the proposed project. 5. NGO must provide plans for the participation and engagement of the members of the surrounding community, if applicable. 6. NGO must contribute a minimum of 5% cash towards the upfront construction costs of the proposed project(s). This is the same requirement for all EWB-USA projects. 7. Any existing community linkages, such as Parent-Teacher Association or community support organizations, should be identified in the application. If possible, endorsements from these organizations should accompany the application Engineers Without Borders USA. All Rights Reserved Page 16 of 16