Approved
Background
The project is informed by the Ethiopia Government’s new National WASH Implementation Framework (WIF), that aims to contribute to Government’s effort to improve access to sustainable Climate Resilient WASH services and to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for Water and Sanitation in urban and rural areas for Ethiopia by 2030. This project is financed by AWF to support countries in the region stretching from the Sahel to the Horn of Africa, that have been impacted by COVID-19 and climate change.
Objectives
The project development objective is to increase access to sustainable potable water supply, sanitation, and hygiene services and prepare investment projects for water supply and sanitation in selected urban towns and rural settlements in Ethiopia. This will address the severe shortage of water supply and inadequate sanitation as well as contribute to climate-resilience and WASH services in the project areas
Beneficiaries
The project will benefit a total of 51,600 people residing in the Beshasha rural town and Ebala[1]Adilo urban settlements. The project will directly benefit, in future, the people residing in the seven urban and rural settlements where feasibility studies will be conducted. The WASH services shall target public institutions such as primary and secondary schools, hospitals, health centres, universities, colleges, kindergarten, clinics, and government offices in the selected towns and urban settlements outlined in table 1. The current human and livestock population of the three urban towns is estimated to be 160,600 and 5,000, respectively, and the current human and livestock population of the four rural settlements is estimated to be 111,000 and 91,000, respectively, based on the Central Statistics Agency (CSA) projection.
Countries:
Ethiopia