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GOK
and KRWSA
GOKs Irrigation and Water Supply Department (IWSD) will be the nodal
department for the project. The Secretary of IWSD will be responsible
for implementing statewide sector development programs with KRWSA's
active sharing of responsibility, but in collaboration with other
state-level agencies, notably the KWA. GOK has set up an exclusive
state - level institutional structure, KRWSA, to plan and complete
project preparation and later take on management responsibility
for project implementation. KRWSA has been set up as an autonomous
registered society with the secretary of IWSD as its chairman. DPMU's
will be set up to manage the project at the district-level, with
stale-level support from KRWSA. Two DPMUs have been set up and are
fully functional; the two remaining DPMUs will be set up before
March 31, 2001.
KRWSA will have
the overall responsibility to ensure that the project's development
objectives are fully achieved. Its main functions will be to: plan
and facilitate implementation, build the capacity of all project
partners, recruit and manage support organisation (SOs), provide
technical, financial and management support to GPs and BGs, ensure
appropriate procurement practices, high quality of engineering designs
and construction, manage project funds, and M&E. It will also
be responsible for statewide sector development activities and reporting
the project's progress to IDA.
While recognizing
that an government departments / agencies have some connection with
the RWSS sector, it should be linked with project activities, their
role would be generally in the form of information, guidance, and
capacity building. Thus, KRWSA will primarily act as a single delivery
channel for providing assistance to GPs and BGs in implementing
the project.
GOK will ensure
that KRWSA's "autonomous" status is not compromised and
only those decisions are referred to GOK which do not fall in KRWSA's
own authority and mandate as per its MOA and the bylaws agreed with
IDA. KRWSA's composition, functions, and operational procedures
have been agreed and are induced in the project implementation plan
(PIP).l KRWSA will be headed by an officer of the Additional Secretary
(at least) of GOK, and have-a multidisciplinary team of about 25
specialists in finance, human resource development (HRD) , M &
E, Water supply and sanitation engineering, and sanitation and hygiene
promotion, policy and strategy development, and procurement. At
least half of the staff of KRWSA and DPMUY will be from the private
sector and. and will he recruited on contract basis. The staff composition
will also reflect an adequate gender balance. Most of the staffing
and other actions have been completed and reflect these principles.
To facilitate implementing statewide sector development, the executive
director of KRWSA would be designated as an ex-officio secretary
of corresponding rank to the GOK's IWSD.
DPMUs will be
district offices of KRWSA and will assist KRWSA in discharging its
district-level functions. On completing the first batch of schemes,
KRWSA will delegate many of its operational functions to the DPMUs
and it will mainly focus its attention on : (a) monitoring and evaluation,
(b) distilling lessons learned and adapting the project implementation
rules, processes, and procedures, (c) long-term sector policy formulation
and developing strategic plan for statewide implementation, and
(d) finalizing plans for scaling-up the project's decentralized
service delivery model to cover the entire project districts, and
to operationalize these in the final year of project implementation.
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