Key elements

• Improving drinking water supplies in 4 cantons.
• Improving sanitary infrastructure in schools, medical centres, and for families in 8 villages, sometimes coupled to a small scale waste water treatment plant.
• Behavioural changes towards sustainable use of water, hygiene and a healthier environment.

Partners

CEDIR (Centro de Desarrollo y Investigación Rural).
CEFODI (Corporación Esmeraldeña para la Formación y el Desarrollo Integral).
FMLGT (Fundacion Maria Luisa Gómez de la Torre).
Municipal Councils of the relevant cantons.

Target groups

About 25 communities which represent 12.500 inhabitants:

• Drinking water for 12.500 people.

• Sanitation for 2.000 people, and,  indirectly for the entire community via schools, health centres and awareness raising.

Objective

Improvement of the socio-sanitary situation in 25 villages in the districts Saraguro, Rioverde, Muisne and Jipijapa through the provision of sustainable access to drinking water and sanitation.

Main results

• Drinking water piped systems have been constructed or repaired and guarantee access to drinking water for 12.500 people.

• A model sanitation infrastructure has been placed in 25 schools, training or health centres, and also for 400 families.
• The inhabitants are using the infrastructure correctly and have positively changed their behaviour related to hygiene, sanitation and sustainable water use.

Financing

DGOS/DGCD,  - the department LNE of the Flemish Government, TMVW, IMDC, Brugs Fonds voor Ontwikkeling en Samenwerking and GROHE in the framework of the Flemish partnership Water for Development -, DIOGENES GOL, the Province of East-Flanders, the municipality of Oosterzele and Berlare.