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Instructions: Indicate Opportunities, challenges and barriers for the use and deployment of the technology or technologies supported by the TA. The objective is to identify specific success factors for technology transfer. This information will feed the CTCN technology library and will contribute to increase learning on specific technologies selected technology (solar and wind pumping systems and water pans) have been the object of extensive study in the feasibility report. To summarize for all three technologies, it is evident that rural and urban water supply present diverse problems and lessons: - Financial Barriers: Reduced grants for water infrastructure and lack of O&M cost -Technological Barriers: Inadequate project design for green water technology - Poor sizing, siting and site investigation during project design phase has been affecting the non-functionality rate of the green water technologies. - Capacity Barriers: Inadequate and management capacity - Lack of financial management and project implementation skills result in low revenue recovery. - Social Barriers: Low project ownership of the communities – in the rural areas, community-based management is the predominant management approach, based on the assumption that the beneficiaries will operate, maintain and manage the system by themselves, after only a short period of training. While community management model works in some cases, in others, the management capacity of community water committees drops dramatically overtime as trained people lose interest, and access to skill upgrading is limited. These challenges have often resulted in these systems being non-operational and to greater extent dysfunctional. Low cost green technologies if support successful deployment of the selected technologies: - Social groups and sustainability of markets need to be taken into account in design of financial instruments to support storage structures and solar pumping systems. - Consideration of climate change impacts should be made explicit requirement in planning for rural water supplies. - Operation and maintenance is central to ensuring technology sustainability. High recognition of this need may entail developing a management model to deploy requisite skills and/or post implementation support units at the county level - Urgent measures are needed to bring rural water supplies under regulation, and to support viable commercial operations in complement with community roles for water supply management. - Explicit effort is required to develop capacity and ensure that qualified professionals assume responsibilities for rural and peri-urban water services. -Continuous monitoring of technology performance to providing lessons and planning baseline. - Project designs should address the needs of all social groups within the community and especially prioritise opportunities for youth employment.