Participação e educação comunitária na gestão e sustentabilidade das fontes de abastecimento de água rural no distrito de Machaze, província de Manica

Abstract

The work aimed to analyze the participation and community education in the management and sustainability of the rural water supply sources in the Machaze District as well as the ways of involving the communities in the decision-making process in the projects carried out in the scope of the emergency and development by the Government and NGOs. taking into account that the majority of sources in the District are inoperable despite the legal instruments defining the involvement of communities in the whole process as a priority for the success of the projects. For the study, theoretical texts were consulted and a choice was made of the communities most affected by the lack of water and other source management problems, favoring semi-structured interviews previously prepared with forty people from different social strata and from the entities involved in the execution of projects. From the result of the study, it can be seen that the lack of management and sustainability of water sources is linked to the lack of active involvement of communities in the decision-making process in the elaboration of water projects, as well as the lack of information, knowledge weak management and technical-financial capacity.