€43 million from the AfDB for climate-resilient water and sanitation - BURKINA FASO
The African Development Bank (AfDB) is providing around 43 million euros to strengthen access to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene in Burkina Faso. The funding approved on November 21, 2023 will benefit vulnerable households.
The financial portfolios of the Water and Sanitation Services Improvement Project for Strengthening Resilience (Pasepa-2R), and the Hygiene Promotion, Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Project sanitation, and strengthening the resilience of populations to natural disasters and climate change in rural areas of eight provinces (Phepa-8P) have just increased.
The two initiatives of the Burkinabe government receive funding of 43 million euros from the African Development Bank (AfDB). This is a concessional loan from the Transition Support Facility (TSF) for a total amount of 38 million euros and a grant of 4.9 million euros from the African Transition Facility. water (FAE).
As part of Pasepa-2R launched on November 21, 2023, financing from the ADB will enable the construction of 30 drinking water supply lines (AEP), made up of 100 high-flow boreholes, 200 autonomous water stations and 160 wash basins in the Centre-West, Centre-North, Centre-South, North, Central Plateau and Sahel regions. The Burkinabe government also plans to modernize 30 existing AEPs.
At the same time, hygiene and sanitation services will be improved with 10,000 new household latrines and 500 public latrine blocks to reduce open defecation.
Raising awareness of good practices in terms of “Wash ”
Also financed by the ADB, the Phepa-8P launched on the same date, will allow the construction of 29 water supply systems, 30 autonomous water stations with a solar pumping system, 3,500 family latrines and 100 latrine blocks institutional and public, targeting the populations of the Center-West, Center-South and Central Plateau regions in the West African country.
The Phepa-8P will also allow the development of 700 domestic cesspools and 40 cesspool laundries in health centers, the supply of 100 hygiene kits to institutions, the awareness-raising of at least 250,000 people on good practices in terms of sanitation. water, sanitation, hygiene (Wash), prevention of Covid-19 and gender-based violence. Phepa-8P also involves the construction of 10 climate-resilient fecal sludge treatment plants, as well as capacity building for 300 employees and managers in the water and sanitation sub-sector.
The financing of nearly 43 million euros from the Pan-African bank is announced approximately 10 months after a first disbursement of 46 million euros granted in March 2023 for Pasepa-2R, Phepa-8P, as well as for the Project d support for access to drinking water and sanitation and capacity building for the population's resilience to Covid-19 and climate change in the peripheral districts of Ouagadougou (Paepa-QP).
