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The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has approved a loan of $76.11 million to Ethiopia for the implementation of water supply and sanitation improvement program, the bank said in a statement on Friday.According to the communiqué, the program aims to improve the health and socio-economic development of the residents of four towns through increased access to sustainable water supply and sanitation services and improvement in service delivery.
It said the aggregate average water supply and sanitation access in the four beneficiary towns is estimated at 53 percent for water supply and 76 percent for sanitation.
Both water supply and sanitation access would be increased to 100 percent by 2020, benefiting 635,000 residents of the towns and approximately 227,000 people in other nearby villages, towns and rural population indirectly, the statement added.
The program is part of the government’s Second Growth and Transformation Plan (2016-2020) in which the water sector has been accorded high importance. The plan seeks, not only to increase access, but also quality of service and standards thereby improving the quality of life of people.
It will be implemented within the framework of the One WASH National Program (OWNP) in which the Bank, partnering with other Development Partners, is participating with funding approved in 2014 to the tune of approximately $92.57 million for the rural component of that program.
The project implementation will take 48 months and it will be executed by WRDF with the Regional Water Bureaus as implementing agencies.
Source: http://en.starafrica.com/
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