Drinking Water and Sanitation supply in Boucle du Mouhoun, Hauts-Bassins and South-West

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Starting situationThe urban population of Burkina Faso will rise from 4.3 million people (as of 2017) to around 11 million by 2030. As a result, the cities will grow and rural regions will be developed.The parastatal water supply company ONEA (Office National de l'Eau et de l'Assainissement) supplies 56 urban centres. Over 90 percent of the population living there have access to safe drinking water. Only 34 percent of the urban population use sanitary facilities that meet minimum standards.Poor sanitation also contributes to the pollution of drinking water during transport and storage. The 1.5 million poor users of public water kiosks are particularly affected. 60 percent of the population suffer from diarrhoea and deficiency symptoms due to poor water quality. Activities to supply drinking water are being consolidated. With the focus on the expansion of a broad-based sanitation chain, both the drinking water and sanitation supply are to be secured and jobs created.The reasons for the problems in the drinking water supply and above all in sanitation lie in deficits in the government authorities. Quantitative and qualitative capacity bottlenecks exist in the Ministry of Water, the municipalities and the ONEA units responsible for sanitation.GoalThe parastatal utility ONEA, responsible for urban water and sanitation, has accelerated the expansion of a broad-based and employment-promoting drinking water and sanitation system, especially in the suburbs.How we do itThe programme builds on the results of the previous module, which were achieved in terms of framework conditions and implementation in drinking water supply. A new focus is on decentralised urban sanitation. The project pursues an approach that takes into account all stages of the sanitation chain: Version - Emptying - Treatment. It promotes public and private actors with regard to strategy, financing, regulation and service provision.At the individual level, the project strengthens the middle management and technical staff of the Ministry of Water and Sanitation, ONEA (in the areas of investment planning, operation and maintenance of the drinking water network, energy audits, planning and monitoring of sanitation) and municipalities (monitoring of environmental standards). It also trains water committees, plumbers, technicians, bricklayers, cesspit emptying and hygiene awareness specialists.At the organizational level, the ONEA project advises ONEA on functional, centralized and decentralized organizational structures to plan and manage sanitation services and on the management concept for the sanitation chain.ONEA mobilises around €1.6 million annually in own funds for investments in the sanitation chain. Its strategic plan until 2020 provides a good framework for the expansion of sanitation. The aim is to increase the percentage of the population with access to sanitation to 46 percent. Up to 34 new sludge treatment plants are to be built.Effects / ImpactsThe project is in its first year of implementation (2019), which means that no impacts can yet be identified. The following impact hypotheses exist for this implementation phase:(i) Donor organisations support harmonisation and standards. Greater transparency, harmonised procedures and a good information base contribute to better decisions and the allocation of funds and thus to an accelerated development of the drinking water and sanitation sector.(ii) The management concept defines the responsibilities and concrete implementation steps for all participants so that the standards of sanitation can be implemented in a practical, qualitatively uniform and time-efficient manner.(iii) Improved cost management increases ONEA's self-financing capacity and thus its investments, which promotes the expansion and maintenance of drinking water networks and the sanitation chain.(iv) Well-trained and informed sector actors perform their management and technical functions better and faster.

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