Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Project Udate

Hello all, well the project in Ban Bo is finally moving ahead. Last week, the German Agro Action finally transferred the money after requesting endless changes and upadates to our plans. I went out to Ban Bo on Monday and the villagers are already pressing ahead with the contruction of the gravity fed water system. It's going to be a big one: nearly 2000m of pipe, 3 large tanks serving upwardsof 250 families. In the next week or so we should be doing our workshop training a small number of men and women in the village to build, maintain, distribute and ensure proper use of the BioSand Water filters.

The Nam Ko watershed project is set to enter its next phase of research with more community mapping exercises, transect walks (a research method inolving hikes into remote catchments with farmers where we analyze and conduct interviews with land users), and interviews and surveys of village men and women on the impacts of land use plans and the environment. Currently, PSTEO and myself are organizing a study tour to the Huaphan Province in late October to visit a similar project where we hope to exchange ideas and lessons learned on land use planning and watershed management for upland communities.

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