Key elements

• Realization of a number of water points.
• Sensitization on hygiene and sanitation.
• The municipalities and management committees act as client-contractors.
• Formation of service NGOs.
  

Partners

• 5 municipalities.
• 4 NGOs from Benin:  JAE, AVPN, CERIDAA, REPFED.
• In cooperation with SNV Stichting Nederlandse Vrijwilligers (=Foundation Dutch Volunteers).
  

Target groups

• (indirect) The rural and semi-urban population of the different municipalities in the departments of Mono and Couffo.
• (direct) The inhabitants of approximately 200 villages or districts. The average population of a district is 200 persons. Therefore we estimate the number of direct beneficiaries at 40.000 persons.
  

Objectives

• A long-lasting improvement of the access to drinking water and of the behaviour of the population in the field of hygiene and sanitation.
• The reinforcement of the abilities and the position of the main actors in the municipal water sector, namely:
• the population and the municipal authorities in the field of acting as client-contractor;
• the local NGOs as social mediators;
• the women in their role of co-manager of the processes and the realizations of the project.
  

Main results

• 94 new hydraulic constructions are operational (wells or boreholes, a small water system with reservoir, and 4 drinking water systems), supplying together about 130 villages or communities.
• 40 existing hydraulic constructions are repaired and made operational again.    
• The rules concerning hygiene are respected in 200 villages and districts.
• The necessary sanitary facilities were installed in the same villages and communities. All are operational.
• The management committees for each water point in 200 villages or communities are active and able to keep the infrastructure operational during a long time.
• The local authorities of the municipalities of Dogbo, Toviklin and Lalo control the planning, the realization and the management in accordance with a view of participation, with attention to gender and taking the national guidelines and standards for the sector into account.
• NGOs from Benin successfully back up the population and the municipal authorities in planning, realization and management of the projects and of the water and sanitation infrastructure.
• The framework for mutual questioning and exchange between the NGOs and the other actors has been reinforced.
  

Financing