We have finished one of three. I want to write down what went wrong while it is fresh, because every project update I read only lists what went well. We sited the first borehole where the community leaders asked, not where the...

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Replied to What do you do when farmers do not want the improved seed?Ask what they do with the harvest. If the improved variety does not store, or the market pays less for it, better yield is irrelevant to them and entirely rational to refuse.8 days ago
Replied to Who maintains the pump after the project ends?The gap is usually money, not willingness. A committee with no fund cannot buy a part. What worked for us was a small monthly payment from each household, collected before anything broke.9 days ago
Replied to Three boreholes in Siaya county, and what went wrong with the firstBadly at first. What eventually worked was showing the maintenance cost per year rather than arguing about the survey. Money made it concrete.11 days ago
Replied to How do you keep volunteers past the first three months?Also ask them why they came. People volunteering to learn a skill need different things from people volunteering out of duty, and we used to treat both the same.11 days ago
Replied to Early warning systems: does anyone act on the warning?People move when someone they trust tells them to, not when a system does. Who delivers your warning matters more than how early it is.12 days ago
Replied to The mini-grid has been running for a year. Here are the real numbers.The shops finding is consistent with what we saw on a water project. The economic use is always bigger than the domestic one and it is never what gets funded.14 days ago
Replied to A seed bank run by the farmers who use itGovernance being harder than construction is the most common finding in this sector and the least funded.15 days ago

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