Pump Aid and the Elephant Pump programme

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Pump Aid andthe Elephant Pump programme

• For MUS

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Pump Aid andthe Elephant Pump programme

• Introducing Pump Aid
• The Elephant Pump
• Multiple Use
• Partnership Approach
• Challenges of Scaling Up
• Innovative Funding

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History of Pump Aid

• Pilot scheme 100 Elephant Pumps starts 1998
• Ministry approval UK charity status Oct 1999
• Nearly 4,000 pumps and a million beneficiaries
• Pump Aid invited to assist 21 African countries
• Winners of St Andrews Environment Prize 2005
• Malawi pilot launched by Vice-President 2005
• Winners of World Bank Dev Marketplace 2006

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Who are Pump Aid?

• A million Elephant Pump users
• Southern Based NGO with UK presence
• 132 staff in Zimbabwe and Malawi
• Professor Anthony Butterworth FRS
• Shungu Munyati (Nat Instit Health Res)
• Martha Rukuni ACA MBA
• Ian Thorpe (International Director)

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How is an Elephant Pump built?

• Prior to pump installation a self-filtering well
  is dug up to 30 metres depth. The well is lined
  with bricks or concrete rings with the top
  section sealed and sand backfilled.

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Features of the Elephant Pump

• Low initial inclusive cost per pump and per
  beneficiary
• Five times cheaper than piston pumps (inclusive
  costs)
• Ease of maintenance by the pump owner at
  extremely low cost
• Sustainable and suitable for the most remote and
  poor areas
• High extraction rates of about one litre per
  second
• Far less energy used to lift a certain volume of
  water
• Suitable for children and the elderly, safe and
  enjoyable to use
• Adaptable design with a fallback extraction
  option (bucket)
• Yields high water quality, excludes sources of
  contamination
• Suitable for dry-season garden irrigation and
  when rains fail
• Built and maintained using only locally available
  materials

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Features of the Elephant Pump

• Beneficiaries contribute bricks, sand and some
  labour
• Sense of ownership, due to involvement in
  construction
• Culturally sensitive design which can be repaired
  by women
• Extraction of water possible up to 30 metres
  depth
• Powered by renewable energy (hand /pedal power)
• Can be adapted to use solar or wind power if
  required
• Combined with self-cleaning hand dug well design
• Can easily be deepened should the water table
  fall
• Elephant pump is self cleaning, so cannot get
  clogged up
• No danger of children or animals falling in as
  fully enclosed
• Spare parts eg rope can be made by the
  beneficiaries

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Examples of Agricultural Usage

• Vegetable production
• Fruit trees and nurseries
• Livestock and fish
• Medicinal herbs
• Dry spell irrigation
• School nutrition gardens (bicycle)

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Innovations in Sanitation

• One bag toilet - re-usable materials
• Culturally sensitive school toilet designs
• Urine diversion fertiliser, pit life-span
• Avoiding deforestation - wet mud bricks, no need
  to boil water, tree planting
• Hand-washing facilities, natural soap
• Health and Hygiene Education
• Maintenance and Sustainability

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Impact on Livelihoods

• Income generation
• Time saved for productive activities
• Reduced days lost to illness
• Increased agric knowledge base
• Child headed households
• School attendance
• Home based care

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A Partnership Approach

• Pump Aid works in partnership with
• A million Pump Users, Community Leaders
• Other Non-Governmental Organisations (IDE CARE,
  OXFAM, CAFOD, PLAN, World Vision)
• Training of NGOs and Social Enterprises (WISH)
• District Councils (water/sanitation committees)
• Governments (DFID, Ed, Health, Agric etc)
• Schools and Clinics (200 school clusters)

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The Tipping Point

• Over a million people now use the Elephant Pump
  every day
• Successful partnership programmes with well
  recognized organisations

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Expansion Plans over five years

• 32,000 Elephant Pumps in Africa
• School cluster, child-centred approach
• 8 million with clean productive water, food
  security, 5 million trees planted, livestock
• 4 million people with improved sanitation
• Seeding and training in other countries
• Propagation through training partnerships
• Monitoring of SE and NGO trainees

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Challenges

• Monitoring impact (BRTI, PAL, WB etc)
• Integration of Multiple Use (agric training,
  sanitation with hygiene education)
• Multiple Use perceptions
• Overcoming sense of threat
• Working with Governments (Zim)
• Sharing Experiences
• Raising Funds for Expansion

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Exponential Expansion

• Exponential expansion of a successful project
  brings its own challenges
• Number of pumps being installed every month
  2005 (20), 2006 (50) 2007 (120) 2008 (250)
• Other NGOs being trained so that they can build
  their own Elephant Pumps eg World Vision
• Maintaining standards is a huge challenge

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Sharing Experiences

• DFID UK/Harare (TLC) and British Embassies
• Int Centre for Water and Sanitation (IRC)
• Poverty Action Lab, St Andrews Prize
• Website, E-conferences, through partners
• Rural Water Supply Network, BRTI, NIHR
• HIDC, CFA, World Water Day events
• Field days (eg 12 NGO visits this month)
• MUS Group and other working groups

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• World Bank Prize Selected from 2,500 water and
  sanitation projects from 254 countries

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Innovative Funding
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• Launched 22nd March
• Sold over 2 million bottles
• Over 250K for Pump Aid
• A life in your hands
• Drop for Drop?
• One litre 100,000 litres
• ASDA and WALMART

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