“WE TAKE A STEP FORWARD BY OFFERING INTEGRAL ACCESS TO RELIABLE ENERGY, WATER & SANITATION BASIC SERVICES”
The aim of the programme called EncASa (Spanish acronym for Energy, Water & Sanitation) is to improve the quality of life of the rural Oaxaca communities, where there is no basic services in a conventional way, through a catalogue of solutions that reduce and avoid indoor smokes and outdoor smokes, as well as save water or allow the reuse of water, favouring thus the mitigation, adaptation and resilience to climate change. The solutions provided with this aim, up to now, have been:
- Energy: 1,050 solar home systems and 129 improved cookstoves
- Water: 8 solar pumps; 83 eco filters; 2 lifestraw; 66 improvements of springs plus community chlorinating, and; 81 rainwater catchment systems
- Sanitation: 177 dry toilets and 9 green filters.
EncASa was started, in 2018, in collaboration and with co funding from the Government of Oaxaca, AECID -the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation- and AMEXCID as a continuation of Luz en Casa Oaxaca, and acciona.org is still extending it, in more recent phases, with AECID one more time, the Gonzalo Rio Arronte Foundation or the company Rotoplas.
1,337
households serviced
5,233
persons benefited
KEY ASPECTS OF ENCASA OAXACA
- The EncASa programme (Spanish acronym for Energy with Water & Sanitation) implies the extension of the basic services offered by acciona.org: we add access to drinking water and appropriate sanitation to the access to energy we provide since our creation.
- The high population dispersion and bad communications infrastructures in the rural Oaxaca make complicated the traditional supply (through distribution networks) to the its communities.
- Starting data of the project (INEGI, 2015): 3.1% Oaxaca population without access to the electricity service; 12.6% without access to driking water; 25% without sanitation, and; 41% households had cookstoves without a chimney.
- The lack of basic services results in different problems making difficult the progress of people, such as those related to health and education.
- EncASa Oaxaca offers several solutions to reduce the effects of that deficiency.
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