Senegal - First Water Supply and Sanitation Sub-Program (WSS) in Rural Areas

The present rural water supply and sanitation sub-programme aims at addressing this major concern. It falls within the scope of the Bank’s Initiative for the sector and constitutes its maiden sub-programme in Senegal. At the same time, it represents an effective component of the country’s Millennium Water Supply and Sanitation Programme (PEPAM) and thus reflects the Government’s aim to ensure the equitable development of the various regions of the country as well as remedy the inadequacies noted in line with the policy of decentralization and regional balance. To this end, it will be based on: (i) the new sectoral policy letter of PEPAM adopted by the Government and donors in April 2005 and; (ii) the Government’s strategy in rural sanitation outlined under the PEPAM. This strategy has translated into the setting up of structures at national level in charge of defining the strategic orientations and proposing global solutions for the problem of wastewater, solid wastes and excreta in the rural areas in question.