Governance of water and sanitation in Angola's poor neighbourhoods

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Access to clean and proper sanitation facilities (WatSan) is still precarious in Angola as demonstrated by successive outbreaks of Cholera. In peri-urban Luanda, people pay high prices for poor quality water from private vendors, as a great proportion of water standpoints, especially those managed by state-owned public utilities, break down frequently or do not fonction: many sub-urban neighborhoods simply do not have water points. In the Moxico province, most people among whom there is a high number of returnees, take water from rivers, exposing families to health risks linked to umpurified water. This programme aims to ensure sustainable, equal and non-discriminatory access to sufficient, safe, physically accessible and affordable drinking water and adequate sanitation for peri-urban and rural communities in the Luanda and Moxico provinces of Angola, by through human rights-based approach. Therefore, the programme to address the issue of sustainability of access to water and sanitation by introducing ownership rights and community management of WatSan schemes. This joint-programme, which sees the participation of ILO, IOM, UNICEF and UNDP, will pursue the key objective of bringing safe drinking water and adequate sanitation to up to 120,000 people directly, and another 400,000 from multiplier effects, so that the MDG gap for water and sanitation is closed by 3,4% (to 12%) and 3,3% (to 12%) respectively.

Project symbol

ANG/09/50/UND

Admin unit

DWT/CO-Yaounde

Start date

29/04/2009

End date

20/03/2013

Total allocation

246281

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

246281

Development Partners

Multi Partner Trust Fund Office, UNDP

Country/Countries

Angola

Outcomes

Mainstreaming Decent Work