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**********************TUNIS, Tunisia,** February 5, 2013/ *– *The African
Water Facility offered a 1 million euro grant to the Community Integrated
Development Initiatives (CIDI) to support their Kawempe Urban Poor
Sanitation Improvement Project (KUPSIP). The project is designed to provide
affordable and sustainable sanitation services to over 100,000 urban poor
living in the Kawempe Municipality, in Kampala, Uganda.****
By expanding sanitation coverage and reducing environmental pollution, the
KUPSIP is expected to help improve the health of slum dwellers and decrease
the mortality rate of children under five by reducing the spread of cholera
and diarrheal diseases, which is 23 per cent higher in households where
facilities are inadequate and in areas where human waste disposal is
improperly managed.
More specifically, the grant will support the following : provision of
sanitation facilities for households, schools and the public in poor urban
areas; delivery of pro-poor sanitation financing for accessing affordable
and improved sanitation infrastructure; definition of a sustainable fecal
sludge management and safe reuse strategy; promoting of collaboration with
the private sector to identify and market affordable and consumer-friendly
sanitation technologies; dissemination of targeted information, education
and communication to promote better hygiene practices and generation and
dissemination of knowledge products covering the entire sanitation chain
through collaboration with agronomical research institutions.
The AWF grant will cover 74 per cent of the total project cost, while CIDI
and collaborating partners will meet the balance of 26 per cent in form of
financial and in-kind contributions.
The project will be executed by CIDI in partnership with Kawempe
Municipality of the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) and the National
Water and Sewerage Cooperation (NWSC) and should be completed by the end of
2015.
About the African Water Facility (AWF)****
The AWF is an initiative of the African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW)
hosted by the African Development Bank (AfDB), established in 2004 as a
Special Water Fund to help African countries achieve the objectives of the
Africa Water Vision 2025. The AWF offers grants from €50,000 to €5 million
to support projects aligned with its mission and strategy to a wide range
of institutions and organizations operating in Africa. Its three strategic
priority activities are
1-preparing investment projects to mobilize investment funds for projects
supported by AWF;
2-enhancing water governance to create an environment conducive for
effective and sustainable investments;
3-promoting water knowledge for the preparation of viable projects and
informed governance leading to effective and sustainable investments.
Since 2006, AWF has funded 73 national and regional projects in 50
countries, including in Africa’s most vulnerable states. It has mobilized
more than €532 million as a result of its project preparation activities,
which constitute 70 per cent of its portfolio. On average, each €1
contributed by the AWF has attracted €20 in additional follow-up
investments.****
The AWF is entirely funded by Algeria, Australia, Austria, the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation, Burkina Faso, Canada, Denmark, the European
Commission, France, Norway, Senegal, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and
the African Development Bank. The AWF is governed by a Governing Council
representing its 15 donors, UN-Water Africa, the AU via NEPAD, AMCOW and
the AfDB.