The services that AquinoSystems can provide on the WASH field are as follows:
1. Project Identification and Design:
- Participatory Assessments: These could address an integral approach when water and sanitation, health, risk reduction, disasters and resilience sectors are included
- Feasibility Studies: During this step the feasibility study will incorporate the social, economic and technical assessment to identify the level of service that beneficiaries are able and willing to pay.
- Detailed Engineering Design: Including surveys, pumping equipment design, main pipelines, water distribution networks, sewerage, design of specific construction works, construction of water supply systems, drawings and the project budgeting.
2. Project implementation
- AquinoSystems offers writing project proposals based in the “Logical Framework” planning tool.
3. Planning and implementation:
- Project planning process facilitation including involvement of stakeholders. The expected outcome will be the organization chart, the chronogram, the monitoring and evaluation plan according to the proposal.
- Capacity building on the Participatory Hygiene and Sanitation Transformation-Community Led Total Sanitation (PHAST-CLTS) tools to provide hygiene promotion services.
- Capacity building at community level on administration, operation and maintenance of water and sanitation systems
- We have broad experience in the implementation of projects led by the community.
- End of project transition: Facilitation to define the exit strategy of the project including the follow up plans according to the project needs.
4. Monitoring, Evaluation and Control
- AquinoSystems offers the development of monitoring plans incorporating innovation through the use of mobile devices. In addition, services to define proper tools such as: questionnaires and its transcription to collect the data through mobile devices to conduct the base-line, midterm and final evaluations.
- Experience in evaluations using specific applications for data process and reporting through dashboards containing tables and graphs making easy the project achievements analysis.