Multinational - Lake Victoria Region Water and Sanitation Initiative project

This project is part of the Lake Victoria Water and Sanitation Initiative (LVWATSAN) implemented in seven (7) towns in the Lake Victoria Basin through cooperative agreements between UN-HABITAT and the three East African Governments of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. This initiative focussing on the growth of water supply and sanitation services in the Lake Victoria Basin not only addresses the needs of the largest concentration of population in the East African sub-region but also contributes to management of the sensitive ecology of the Lake. This operation concerns the preparation of the extension phase of the initiative to 15 other cities of the five Member States since the accession of Rwanda and Burundi. The preparation project will identify the most critical constraints in delivering effective service in the towns and develop solutions to the level of detailed designs. It will concurrently develop the long term requirements into investment plans ar preliminary design stage. This will permit the towns to seek funding from external support agencies such as the African Development Fund, and local sources for both the immediate works and the long term requirements. It is estimated that the cost of project formulation would be of the order of EUR 998,500.