World Agroforestry Center Production

1. ARIGA’S STAKEHOLDER
PRELIMINARY RESULTS SHARING
WORKSHOP
CETRAD’S SOCIAL SURVEY ANALYSIS
MAY 26TH 2014
World Agroforestry Centre (WAC), NAIROBI
Sarah Ogalleh & Alex Oduor

2. Data collection clusters
• Cluster 1: Gotu springs: near the Ewaso Ngiro River .
The spring is protected by fence (Isiolo county)
• Cluster 2: Kubikalo, Kom, Dimatho, Biliqo, Biliqo
marara, Bulesa, Goda, Malkafunan, Merti (Isiolo
County)
• Cluster 3: Malkagala, Basa (Isiolo County)
• Cluster 4: Modogash (remote urban setting) (Wajir
County)

3. Data collection clusters
• Cluster 5: Habaswein: (Habaswein township-considered
urban setting) (Wajir County)
• Cluster 6: Wajir: urban setting (Wajir County)
• *Cluster 7: Dadaab: refugee camp (not visited)
(Garissa County)

4. METHODOLOGY

5. METHODS
• Household surveys
(HH) (Total: 151)
Participant Observation,
informal interviews
• Expert Interviews
(Total: 4)
• Key informant
Interviews (KI) (Total:
30); WV:16, RWC: 2
• Focus group
discussions (FGDs)
(Total: 8)

6. HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
• Targeted households from every cluster, closed
questions (Quantitative data), & open ended
questions (Qualitative data).
• Language of communication – Swahili, Somali & Borana

7. Key informant interviews
Targeted the local leaders, local water service providers’
leadership, county leadership, development organizations
(local and international NGOs); Water vendors, random
water collectors

8. Focus group discussions (FGDs)
• Mostly attended by 15-35 persons per meeting
in all the sites
• Language of communication – English, Kiswahili,
Borana, Somali (with the help of a translator in
different sites)

9. Expert Interviews
• Targeted the water ministers – at county levels,
water experts – formerly at district levels –
water engineers

10. PRELIMINARY RESULTS

11. Are households aware of the
Merti Wajir Water Pipeline
project, & where was the
information sourced?

14. Understanding of the Merti
Wajir Water Pipeline Project

16. Who supports, who opposes, to
what extent?

18. Categories of Supporters/Opposers
• High Interest – in favour of the Merti
Wajir Water Pipeline project
• High interest – opposed to the project
• Low interest – neutral to the project
• Do not know/In doubt/unsure due to
lack of information

19. Overview of reasons for supporting or opposing the
project (summary)

20. A) High interest – in favour of the project
• The Wajir County
Government –
• The governor,
• the water minister
• County commissioner
• Local leadership in Wajir,
Habaswein, Modogash
• NGO’s especially CRS,
CARITAS, Pastoral
organization in Wajir,
ADESO-Isiolo,
• Majority of Wajir
community
Reasons for position
– WASH -water sanitation and
health will be enhanced
- dignity of people of Wajir –
now using bucket toilets
- Political mileage (not
mentioned, may be a good
reason for support)

22. What would make those
supporting change their minds?

24. B) High interest: Opposed to the project
Persons/Institutions
• Jiko la Akina mama women
group (Habaswein) – very
powerful and vigilant
• Community in Habaswein,
Dimatho, Biliqo, Bulesa
Reasons for position
• Sustainability of the water
over the years
• ‘….We do not have any
water, if there is any water
underground, we should
have it first. I understand
that Wajir people have
some salty water, at least
they have some water, we
don’t have any!...’

27. C) Low interest: Neutral
• A few Individual
community members
from Wajir (‘..why would
they give us ‘their’ water,
let us look for our own
water’)
• Some of the community
members at Gotu springs
(“…if our chief has said
its ok to take water to
Wajir, I don’t have a
problem…he has said
it!”) (Gotu female household
interviewee, April 2014)
Reasons for position
• Need for exploration of
other alternatives for
water sourcing other
than the Merti Wajir
Water Pipeline Project –
‘independence sort of
feeling’
• Local leadership voice
support
• The project will not
affect them

28. D) Do not know/In doubt/unsure due
to lack of information
Individual/community
• Gotu local leadership
• Communities from
Malkagalla, Bulesa, Basa
• Community in Merti
Reasons for the position
• ‘We don’t know if the water
is taken to Wajir, it will
affect our spring/our
boreholes, if it will not, then
we support, if it does, then
we don’t support it, but we
do not have information to
help us make that decision’
• ‘We want information to be
able to decide if we support
or not!’

29. Challenges
• Demand for payment for meeting attendance
in some places.
• The poor road network
• Communication barriers
• Acclimatization related challenges – weather,
food that caused many of the team members to
get sick
• Project names issues – ‘Merti Wajir water
pipeline’ versus ‘Wajir project’ versus
‘Habaswein project’

30. Conclusions
• The proposed project of Merti Wajir Water
Pipeline Project is not known to majority of the
persons in the 6 sites we visited. Out of the 6
clusters, only Wajir and Habaswein are well
informed, but then for the wrong reasons.
• The other sites : Merti, Malkagala, Bulesa, Goda,
Biliqo, Basa, Gotu are not aware of the project.
Very few from these areas are aware of the
project, but through ‘word of mouth’ & other
unreliable sources.

31. Conclusions
• The power of the local leadership to change the
perceptions of the people about the project – but it
will take at least 6 months of in-depth negotiation
• The biggest obstacles to the project could be the
Habaswein Community, mostly – Jiko la akina
mama women group. Men from Habaswein and
local leadership are not entirely against the project,
and can be easily convinced to support the project
with good reasons

32. Conclusions
• ‘Could it be a pipe dream?’ The proposition to
explore other sources of water for Wajir, other
than the Merti Wajir Water pipeline project
can be mostly associated with doubt that the
Merti Wajir Water Pipeline project will ever be
‘realized’.

33. Acknowledgements
• Local communities from Wajir,
Habaswein, Modogash, Isiolo, Merti,
Basa,Malkagalla, Bulesa, Goda,
Malkafnan
• The local leadership – chiefs & sub-chiefs
from the various clusters
• The water service providers – Merti,
Basa, Bulesa
• Senator (Wajir), MP- Diriiye, Eng.
Mohamed, Water Minister- Wajir &
others
• ICRAF & CETRAD ARIGA staff
• The Research & data entry team:
Shamsa, Fahriya, Abdifattah, Jillo,
Abdi, Alex & Sarah, Dickson and
Mercy

34. The end
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