Key elements

• Enhanced access to drinking water and sanitation.
• Client- contractorship by the municipalities.
• Integration into national politics of decentralization.
• Reinforcement of local NGO.
  

Partners

• AMRAD (Association Malienne de Recherche Action pour le Développement) (Malian Association for Research Action for Development).
• AMASBIF (Association Malienne pour le Sauvegarde du Bien Etre Familiale) (Malian Association for Safeguarding Family Well-being).
• CREPA (Centre Régional pour l’Eau Potable et l’Assainissement à faible coût) (Regional Center for Drinking Water and Sanitation at low cost).
  

Target Groups

About 28.000 persons in the communities I and IV of the Bamako district will have access to drinking water. Some 12.000 people will have adequate sanitation facilities.

Objectives

Improving the access to safe drinking water and sanitation for the underprivileged population in 8 districts of municipalities I and IV of the Bamako district.

Main results

• About 28.000 people have sustainable access to drinking water.
• About 12.000 people have individual basic sanitary infrastructure or have access to public sanitary services.
• The population involved adopts better hygienic behaviour and uses the water points and sanitation infrastructure in an adequate way.
• Each district has a community based organisation for sustainable management of the public infrastructure.
• Communities I and IV have gathered real experiences with respect to municipal client-contractorship.   
  

Financing

European Union, DGOS, AWW, Zuiderpershuis project "Water in Danger" Antwerp, and ???.