Burkina Faso - Project to support access to drinking water and sanitation in outlying areas

The proposed project builds on the experience of the delegation of the public drinking water service, capitalized since 2009 by the National Office of Water and Sanitation (ONEA) of Burkina Faso, the executing agency, to extend drinking water supply to peripheral or undeveloped neighborhoods of the city of Ouagadougou, which are in deficit. Indeed, with the lack of funding that characterized the 2016-2020 period, investments for the development of drinking water supply and sanitation systems have not kept pace with the changing needs of urban populations, especially in the undeveloped peripheral areas, where a very large part of the Ouagadougou population resides. As a result, there is currently a great disparity in water supply between the developed part of the city (access rate of over 90%) and the non-developed part (access rate of 37%). On the one hand, the project will provide an immediate response to the low coverage of water and sanitation needs in these densely populated areas, thus helping to reduce the exposure of their mostly poor and vulnerable residents to waterborne diseases and COVID-19. In addition, the project will support technical, socio-economic and environmental, social and climate impact feasibility studies for medium-term investments in the development of climate-resilient water, sanitation and hygiene services in the most deprived and densely populated peripheral neighborhoods of Ouagadougou not yet served by the ONEA network. In this regard, the project will make available to the Government and donors an integrated project file for investment in water, hygiene, sanitation and climate resilience services in five (05) peripheral neighborhoods not served by ONEA (Bogodogo North-East, Boassa, Zaghtouli, Watinoma, Tengandogo), including the consultation files of service providers for its complete operationalization. With a total duration of thirty-six (36) months, the project has a total estimated cost of one million seven hundred thousand ninety-nine and fifty-six cents (1,700,099.56) Euros financed by the African Water Facility (AWF) to the tune of 1,549,710.78 Euros and the Government /ONEA to the tune of 150,388.78 Euros.