Development of water access in the rural district of Isingiro

ongoing

This project aims to improve the living conditions in the rural district of Isingiro, in southwestern Uganda, where 20% of the population are refugees. The proposed intervention is an extension of the Mbarara-Masaka project (AFD financing - €120M) which plans to supply water to the town of Mbarara via a pipeline crossing the rural district of Isingiro. With concern toward social equity, the government wanted to use the new infrastructure to better serve the district it crosses.The project therefore has two components of works and accompanying measures: one in rural areas, and one in the refugee hosting areas known as Nakivale and Orushinga. While the work in each of the components is conventional and similar, the accompanying measures reflect the specificity of the needs in the refugee hosting areas on the one hand and in rural Uganda on the other.