Key elements

• Drinking water points,
• Sanitation-infrastructure,
• Vegetable cultivation,
• Optimize local contribution to the construction of water-infrastructure,
• Ensure access to water for the most vulnerable people,
• Equilibrium between claiming capacity of the population and planning capacity of local governments and organizations involved in development,
• The responsabilization of communities in water and good governance,
• Strengthening institutional sustainability through the support of communities with local client-contractorship (contract procedures, set up and follow up of service contracts),
• Collect and capitalize data and local knowledge,
• Promotion of gender aspects,
• Contribute to the sustainability of local NGO’s by developing them into professional organizations that supply services of social intermediation and mobilization of the population in the development process and water management.

Partners

PNE – Bénin (Partenariat National de l’Eau – Bénin).
CREPA
Helvetas

Target group

The target group of GLEauBe is the population of 4 communities in the department of Atacora: Pehunco, Kérou, Cobli, Boukoumbé and 1 community in the department of Donga: Djougou.
Drinking water infrastructure will be built in about 60 villages with an average population of 250. This brings the amount of immediate beneficiaries to at least 15.000 people.

Objectives

The ultimate objective is improving the living conditions and food security in 5 villages in Atacora/Donga.
The specific objective is a sustainable access to drinking-water, to basic facilities and knowledge with regard to sanitation & hygiene and to water for economic activities.

Main results

1. The mechanisms and competences for a better management and governance of the water sector will be tested, applied and propagated.
2. The water and sanitation-infrastructure is constructed and is functional.
3. Water is used sustainably for economic activities such as vegetable cultivation.
4. The natural resource on water is followed up and managed sustainably.
5. The management of all infrastructure (drinking water, sanitation and irrigation) is ensured for the future.

Finance

BOF and private donations.