Community Asset Building and Development Action (CABDA) supports activities under
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene pillar in the context of SDG 6 by ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
The organization seeks to provide the communities that it works in with clean and safe water while ensuring sustainability of the facilities. This is done through spring protection, borehole drilling, rainwater harvesting and empowerment of community in operation and maintenance of facilities. Provision of Clean and safe water will reduce the incidence of diseases that are contracted through dirty water such as diarrhoea thus reducing health expenses as well as infant mortality. Through its intervention CABDA works closely with other partners including the county and national governments and statutory agencies in protecting water sources against encroachment, over exploitation (e.g. through irrigation) and pollution.
Limited access to appropriate sanitation facilities remains a concern for many communities in Western Kenya. The use of the bush to help themselves increases the risk of water contamination and disease. CABDA focuses on construction of sanitation blocks in schools as well as improved pit latrines in households through community total led sanitation (CLTS) to ensure proper waste disposal and utilizing simple strategies such as hand washing with soap, encouraging basic activities like having dish racks, clothes lines etc.
The focus on empowering communities to sustain interventions carried out at the community level through capacity building of water and sanitation committees on operation and maintenance, training communities on cost recovery plans involving initiation of income generating activities to maintain and sustain water scheme with the goal of “Improved access to clean and safe water and appropriate sustained sanitation facilities”.
