Greens

Implementation of Sustainable Technologies for Rural Population of Western Georgia

Project name: Implementation of new sustainable methods of solving Sanitarian-Prophylactic problems, ensuring access to safe water and supplying alternative energy resources in rural areas of Georgia.

Project was implemented with support of WECF.

Project mainly focuses on the issues of environment, health, sustainable development, and poverty reduction in poor regions of Georgia.

Goals of the project are
• To build the capacity of poor local communities in rural areas, citizens, organizations, private sector and authorities
• Show ways to rural citizens to improve living and health conditions with simple traditional and new sustainable technologies
• To test and improve drinking water quality and supply system in rural areas of target regions with traditional methods and cooperate with water supply companies
• To involve local population in the processes of decision making
• Popularization of renewable energy technologies and implementation of pilot projects (construction of a bio-gas plant, solar warm-water collectors, eco-san dry UD toilets, constructed wells, soil filters)
• To prepare informational materials on renewable technologies and eco-sanitation issues
• To organize awareness raising activities for rural population in the target areas
• To establish eco-san committees in the target villages, join the local authorities in decision-making processes and involve them in all the above mentioned activities
• To prepare a baseline study of selected Villages using different methods (distributing special questionnaires)
• To organize discussions on eco-sanitation, safe water and renewable energy in different representatives of society (teachers, local government representatives, local people, farmers, etc)
• Cooperation with mass-media (to publish newsletter articles and organize TV and radio programs).

Target regions: West Georgia, Samegrelo (Villages: Sepieti, Nosiri, Teklati) and Imeteri (Village Matkhoji).

Target groups are
• Local population (villagers)
• Local Government
• Local NGO’s
• Local Mass-media
• Local medical services
• Local water-supply companies
• Local teachers
• Local farmers.

Results achieved are
• 20 Eco-toilets: 18 in the target households and 2 at the monastery (122 users)
• 20 Solar warm-water collectors for hand-washing facilities: 18 in the target households and 2 at the monastery (122 users)
• 13 Constructed wells in 12 target households and 1 in the kindergarten (150 users, 225 users in general)
• 1 biogas in the onastery (14 users)
• 1 solar warm-water collector in the monastery (14 users)