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Guidelines forPlanning and Providing

Multiple-Use Water Services

Authors: Marieke Adank, Barbara van Koppen, and Stef Smits,

on behalf of the MUS Group

February 2012

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Adank, M., van Koppen, B. and Smits, S., 2012. Guidelines for

Planning and Providing Multiple -Use Water Services. [online]

IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre and

International Water Management Institute.

Available at:http://www.musgroup.net.

Cover photo by Barbara van Koppen

Copyright 2012 IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre and International Water Management Institute

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

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ISBN/EAN: 978-90-6687-079-6

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Acknowledgements

The production of these Multiple-Use Water Services (MUS) guidelines is the result of a collaborative

effort of the member of the MUS Group, a global group of individuals and organisations with an

interest in multiple use water services. The authors therefore owe a big thank you to all MUS Group

members for their valuable inputs in the preparation of these guidelines.

Special thanks go to Audrey Nepveu De Villemarceau (IFAD), Robina Wahaj (FAO), Robert Meerman

(RAIN foundation), Zemede Abebe (RiPPLE) and Inez Restrepo (CINARA), for valuable comments and

suggestions for improving this document. Furthermore, the authors would like to thank Minnie

Hildebrand, Marion Giese and Angelica de Jesus for their support in editing this document and

making it ready for publication.

Finally, the authors extend gratitude to IFAD which enabled the development of these guidelines

with generous financial support from the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC).

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Contents

Acknowledgements ................................................................................................................................ iii

Contents ................................................................................................................................................. ivBoxes, Figures and Tables ...................................................................................................................... vi

List of acronyms ................................................................................................................................... viii

Glossary ................................................................................................................................................... x

Introduction and set-up of the guidelines .............................................................................................. 1

Where do these guidelines come from? ............................................................................................. 1

Objectives and target audience .......................................................................................................... 3

Set-up of the guidelines and how to use the guidelines ..................................................................... 4

Part 1: MUS concepts and entry points .................................................................................................. 6

Multiple-use water services ................................................................................................................ 6

MUS Entry points ................................................................................................................................ 7

Levels and functions............................................................................................................................ 9

Part 2: Guidelines for planning and provision of MUS.......................................................................... 12

The MUS cycle ................................................................................................................................... 12

Phase 1: Introducing MUS ................................................................................................................. 14

Phase 2: Situational assessment ....................................................................................................... 16

Phase 3: Visioning and strategic planning ........................................................................................ 19

Phase 4: Fitting the financing framework ......................................................................................... 21

Phase 5: Implementation of MUS interventions .............................................................................. 24

Phase 6: Support to continuous service provision ............................................................................ 25

Part 3: Guidelines for the development of an enabling environment for MUS ................................... 26

A: Evidence-based advocacy ............................................................................................................. 27

B: Capacity development at intermediate and national level .......................................................... 29

Part 4: Reference guide to tools and methods ..................................................................................... 31

Tool 1. Community meeting to raise interest in multiple use water services .............................. 32

Tool 2. Getting in-depth information and lots of good ideas: focus group discussion ................. 34

Tool 3. Water user categorisation: Livelihood groups and wealth ranking .................................. 36

Tool 4. Identification of water services and users ........................................................................ 39

Tool 5. Rapid Appraisal Procedure for MUS system ..................................................................... 42

Tool 6. Identification of user representation ................................................................................ 46

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Tool 7. Community mapping ......................................................................................................... 48

Tool 8. Seeing is also learning: village walk ................................................................................... 51

Tool 9. RIDA: Analysis of water resources, infrastructure, demand and access ........................... 52

Tool 10. Village water resources assessment ................................................................................. 55

Tool 11. Assessing demand for water for different uses ................................................................ 57

Tool 12. Household questionnaire on water resources, infrastructure, water demand and use... 60

Tool 13. Water quantity measurements from water resources and infrastructure ....................... 62

Tool 14. Surveying water resources and infrastr