Key elements

• Water supply and waste water evacuation in the working-class districts of the town.

• Experiments concerning garbage collection.
• Elaboration of a master plan for drinking water supply and management in Cap Haïtien, in cooperation with Oxfam Solidarity UK, the town council, the public service for drinking water provision, representatives of various water users.

Partners

A partnership between GTIH (Groupe Technologie Intermédiaire d’Haïti), OXFAM UK and PROTOS.
The contractor-clients: the national direction for drinking water and sanitation (DINEPA) and the city council.

They also appeal to partners from Belgium for the support of local actors (see bottom of the page).

Target groups

• The inhabitants of underprivileged working-class districts in Cap Haïtien.
• The management committees of the drinking water and sanitation systems.
• The contractor-clients (SNEP department north and the city council) through capacity reinforcement.

Objective

To improve the sustainable, participative and equal access to basic services, more specifically to drinking water and sanitation of the inhabitants of underprivileged working-class districts in the city Cap Haïtien.

Main results

• Participative sector planning mechanisms are applied on a local level; a regional management plan for the drinking water and sanitation sector is executed for the city.
• 100.000 inhabitants of underprivileged districts have a regular access to drinking water at an acceptable price.
• The living conditions of 54.000 inhabitants of underprivileged districts have improved by the creation of a healthy environment:
• • the waste water and rainwater are evacuated via concrete channels and erosion is prevented;
  • the garbage is collected.
• Through a sensitization process and the construction of model latrines, 80.000 inhabitants show more adapted behaviour in terms of water use, hygiene and sanitation.
• The local councils and the authorized public service dispose of the competences and means necessary to secure the sustainability of their services.
• The management capacity and position of the population involved have been reinforced, with special attention to the position of the underprivileged within the entire target group.
• The realisations of the project have a positive impact upon important stake holders in the drinking water and sanitation sector, in Haiti as well as international.

Financing

DGOS, EU (EU – ACP Water Facility), CORDAID, Oxfam-UK.

Exchange of Expertise

Centre for Human Settlement of the university of Leuven, with experience on town planning/ habitat.
TMVW for the reinforcement of the local water public services SNEP of Cap Haïtien.