Key elements

•  Supply of drinking water.
• Sanitation.
• Reinforcement of the management capacities.

Partners

The project is executed within the cooperation between ICCO Netherlands (primary responsible), PROTOS (the technical and methodological aspects of water and sanitation) and 3 NGO’s of Madagascar (FIKRIFAMA, SAF/FJKM and Frères de St Gabriël).

Target groups

• The inhabitants of 20 villages of the Northern half of the province.  Every year 25.000 people are provided with access to drinking water. 
• The municipal councils of the involved villages are formed and coached to gradually take up their part as client-contractor and co-ordinator in the water sector.

Objectives

• Sustainable supply in drinking water, good hygiene and sanitation.
• Reinforcement of the organisational capacities of local NGO’s and municipalities. 

Main results

• Access to drinking water for 25.000 people per year.
• Several appropriate sanitary infrastructures have been set up.
• The local management capacity in the field of sanitation and drinking water supply is reinforced.
• New methods are designed, tested and evaluated with regard to local client-contractorship, decentralisation and sustainable management mechanisms for supply of drinking water in rural areas. 

Financing