Key elements

• Realization of water points and sanitary infrastructure.
• Sensitization on hygiene and sanitation.
• The municipalities act as client-contractor.
• The founding of management committees.
• Forming of service NGOs.

Partners

SNV, CREPA, PNE, Aqua for All and HELVETAS.

Target groups

About 102.000 direct beneficiaries will be supplied in the course of the project in 22 municipalities of 6 departments in North and South-West Benin:

• Alibori:  Banikoara, Kandi.
• Atacora: Boukombe, Cobly, Natitingou, Kérou, Kouande, Péhunco.
• Borgou:  N’Dali, Nikki, Péréré, Tchaourou.
• Donga:   Copargo. Djougou.
• Couffo:  Aplahoué, Dogbo, Lalo, Toviklin.
• Mono:    Houéyogbé, Bopa, Lokossa, Athiémé.

Objectives

• A better access to drinking water and sanitation.
• An optimal use of water for hygiene.
• A better application of the institutional framework within the framework of the recent decentralization.
• Reinforcement of the abilities of the different actors in their specific roles.
• A better cooperation of the different actors on the local but also on the national level.
• Obtaining the participation of the population groups in planning, realization and management (delegated client-contractorship).
• An improvement of the maintenance of the water points (promotion of private approach).
• Apply the IWRM approach on the local level with specific attention to gender.

Main results

• An increased access to potable water (205 water points) and to sanitary infrastructure (2360 realizations).
• The behaviour of the population groups has improvement in accordance with the principles of Integrated
•  Water Resources  Management.
• The local actors are able to play their role in the supplies of potable water and sanitary installations within the framework of the decentralization.
• The users of household water are involved in the IWRM planning.
• The project activities are executed in accordance with the principles of good governance.

Financing

European Union, DGOS, SNV, Aqua for All, -the Flemish Government LNE through the Flemish Partnership Water for Development.

Exchange of expertise

IWVA for lecture in a critical manner of the “Code de l’eau”.
VVSG for the planned exchange workshops between the municipalities.