Masai districts village water and transport development

The project will be implemented by Regional and District MAJI (Water Development) Offices, Village Councils, and by the District Ujamaa and Cooperative Development Division. The highest priority of District MAJI Offices is upgrading maintenance of the 40% of existing water systems which are not providing adequate water for livestock and humans. Land Rovers, one each for the Regional and the three District MAJI Offices, will be provided as well as spare parts for boreholes in 22 villages and for heavy equipment used in the construction of small water catchments. Given the Arusha Region"s emphasis on installing systems requiring as little sophisticated equipment as possible, the project will fund 10 Australian Southern Cross windmills with component storage tanks; a training program for village technicians to maintain the windmills is planned. The Regional MAJI Engineer will advise on the above activities. Nine lorries will be sold on a loan basis to villages and wards in order to facilitate import of food, veterinary medicine, and other production-related commodities; the lorries should also stimulate local marketing of livestock. Village Councils will determine the actual use of the lorries with accounting and reporting to be assisted by the Ujamaa and Cooperative Development Division. Loans will comply with Tanzanian Rural Development Bank guidelines. The accumulation of quarterly loan payments will be used to support water supply system maintenance and testing of simple, low-cost technologies such as water catchments.