Condominial water and sewerage systems - costs of implementation of the model : an economic and financial evaluation of El Alto Pilot Project in Bolivia
Foster, Vivien [editor]
The report undertakes the economic, and financial evaluation of El Alto Pilot Project (EAPP), aimed at transferring the condominial water, and sewerage system from Brazil to Bolivia, and testing its applicability in the context of private sector participation in service provision. Since 1998, the EAPP provided condominial water connections to households in eight neighborhoods of El Alto, and condominial sewerage connections in nine neighborhoods. However, according to recent statistics, sixty percent of these households live below the poverty line. The report questions the relevancy, beyond Bolivia, on the extent of the project results, arguing that the peculiar cultural, geographical, and social circumstances of El Alto, makes a difficult test for the condominial approach, where factors that limited its benefits, may not necessarily hamper its development in other contexts to the same degree. Such factors included the exceptionally low levels of household consumption, and experienced difficulties in inducing the community to switch to modern hygiene practices, for a variety of cultural reasons. While results of the EAPP evaluation should thus be specific to El Alto context, in qualitative terms, they are indicative of what can be achieved through this approach: innovative engineering design of networks; community participation; hygiene education; and micro-credit financing.
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