Poverty-oriented basic sanitation and drinking water supply in Kampala

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The project aims to provide the population of Kampala with sufficient, hygienic and economically viable water supplies by 2025, particularly in the informal settlements inhabited by the poor. This is intended to contribute to improving the health situation of the residents of the Kampala metropolitan region and to enforcing the human right to water. Expected effects are drinking water production in line with demand, water quality in line with international standards, significantly reduced water losses and improved access to safe drinking water in informal settlements. Around 2 million people will benefit from the project from an improved water supply. In addition, around 400,000 poor people will have access to drinking water and 250,000 poor people will have access to hygienically safe basic sanitation. The project, with total costs of EUR 222 million, is being financed as part of the Mutual Reliance Initiative by the European Investment Bank (EIB), EU-ITF, the French Development Bank (AFD) and KfW under the leadership of Germany/KfW. The FC contribution includes FC grant funds of EUR 30 million, which consist of EUR 20 million in the 2010 project 66 034 and a further EUR 10 million in the 2013 project 65 816. Due to significant time and cost overruns, follow-up financing (Phase II) was necessary, for which a financing agreement for EUR 150 million (loan) was concluded between AFD and the Ugandan government in January 2019. The measures in Phase II are partly necessary to complete the measures originally planned in Phase I, but also go beyond this.