Mali - The Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Project in Gao, Koulikoro and Segou Regions

This project is a component of PROSEA. It was formulated in accordance with the current policy and strategies in the sector, namely the national water policy, the national policy on decentralization, the national strategy for rural and semi-urban drinking water supply and sanitation, and the Water Code. The key principles of these documents are: (i) support to the central and decentralized technical structures intervening in the sector, the local authorities and beneficiaries; (ii) systematic inclusion of the promotion of individual hygiene and sanitation, and adoption of an approach to sanitation in a broad sense in semi-urban areas; (iii) systematic gender mainstreaming in the activities; and the (iv) outsourcing of works and services to the national private sector, and professionalization of the operation and maintenance of drinking water supply infrastructures. The project will adopt the principle of the council ownership of projects. With this principle, the councils will play a key role in the following activities: (i) providing information on the project to the communities, (ii) outreach activities and sensitization of the populations in the project areas; and (iii) selection of requests for water supply structures, and assessment and approval of the community files.