Kajiado Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Project. A Monitoring and Evaluation experience in a remote dryland

Project Report from the year 2021 in the subject African Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, , language: English, abstract: Kajiado County is located in the southern part of Kenya. It borders Nairobi County to the North East, Narok County to the West, Nakuru and Kiambu Counties to the North, Taita Taveta County to the South East, Machakos and Makueni Counties to the North East and east respectively, and the Republic of Tanzania to the South. It is situated between Longitudes 360 5' and 370 5' East and between Latitudes 10 0' and 30 0' South. The county covers an area of 21,900.9 square kilometres (Km2). Its geography is characterised by plains, valleys, and occasional volcanic hills ranging from an altitude of 500 metres above sea level at Lake Magadi to 2500 metres above sea level in Ngong Hills. Topographically, the county is divided into three different areas namely; Rift Valley, Athi Kapiti plains, and Central Broken Ground. The occurrence of groundwater depends on climate, topography, as well as origin of the underlying rocks. Groundwater yields vary throughout the county from 0.01 to 35.77 cubic metres per hour. Average groundwater is reported as good quality and is used for domestic, livestock, and irrigation purposes. High yielding springs are found on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro, with an average yield of 20m³/hr to 50m³/hr. Other sources of water for domestic and livestock use are sub surface sources such as water pans, dams, and shallow wells. Vegetation cover and browse for livestock, the main source of livelihood, is variedly distributed based on altitude, soil type, and rainfall distribution. The County is divided into five administrative sub-counties namely: Kajiado Central, Kajiado North, Loitokitok, Isinya, and Mashuuru, with a total of 17 administrative divisions. WV Kenya operates in Kajiado Central in Lorngosua division, where Osiligi Area Development Programme (ADP) is located. It is about 160 KMs South West of Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya. It is situated between Longitude 36' and 37' and between latitude I 'and 3' south. The ADP covers eight locations; Lorngusua, Ruanche, Meto, Kumpa, Mailua, Oloirimirimi, Noosikitok, and Eluanata locations. The proposed second phase of the project will continue to cover Meto location and Lorngosua location with an addition of Oloirimirimi location. Meto location has a total population of 3,500 people, of whom 1,742 are female and 532 are children under two years of age. Lorngosua location has a total projected population of 3246, of which 1,862 are female and 162 are children under two years.

Prof. Augustine Otieno Afullo is an accomplished hands-on field consultant, author and academic who has, in a period of 2 decades, done at least 100 field assignments in monitoring and evaluation, environmental impact assessment, training needs assessment, training manual development, feasibility studies; occupational health and safety training and audits; as well as published over 50 books. He has taught and supervised at least 250 students in at least 8 universities. He has a PhD in Environmental Sciences; an MSC in Water and Environment management; an MPhil in Environmental Health and BSC degree in Agriculture. He has a Post graduate Diplomas in Education, Health Education and environmental Science. In addition, he holds certificate qualifications in occupational safety and health (OSH); research methods; research management; Management leadership; Training of Trainers (TOT); ornamental and landscaping. He is a USA Fulbright Scholar in Residence alumnus (SIR-2012-13), a Commonwealth alumnus (2003-2007) at WEDC, Loughborough University and formerly a University of Southern California / GEOHealth Senior research fellow / trainee. Prior to University teaching, he was a high school classroom teacher for 10 years in Kenya and Botswana. In addition, Afullo has been a Commission for University Education program / curriculum / technical site evaluator (2009-2021), and an external examiner / moderator for a number of Kenyan Universities for Theses, projects and End Semester / academic year examinations. He has been an occupational health and safety trainer for top Kenyan parastatals including Kenya Ports Authority. Last but not least, he has written / authored and moderated / reviewed academic curricular in many Kenyan Universities as well as an author of at least 50 University and High school level technical, environmental, agricultural waste management, ethnographic, genealogical, comic and general readership books.