Angola

Urban and Peri-urban Water and Sanitation Joint Programme Management

Project Short Title:Water and Sanitation Joint Programme Management Focal Point: Mr. Josué de Almeida Workshop do Lançamento do Programa - 23 de Julho de 2009 Convite Lista de Participantes Programa do Workshop Programme Fact Sheet Urban and Peri-urban Water and Sanitation Joint Programme Management Folheto do Programa Programa Conjunto de Gestão de Água e Saneamento nas Zonas Urbanas e Peri-Urbanas

Programme Documents Urban and Peri-urban Water and Sanitation Joint Programme Management (Programme Document - English version) Urban and Peri-urban Water and Sanitation Joint Programme Management (Programme Document - Portuguese version) Letter from the Ministry of Planning (MINPLAN) Letter from the Assistant Administrator and Director, Partnerships Bureau / UNDP New York Letter from the Ministry of Environment (MINUA) Letter to the Ministry of Water Meeting with MINPLAN Programme Management Committee MDG-F Operational Guidance (Portuguese version) Terms of Reference and Rules of Procedures for MDG-F National Steering Committe

Duration:	Starting Date: 1 April 2009 Ending date: 31 December 2011	Status: Ongoing
Budget Amount:	$US 7,600,000
Modality of Execution:	NATIONAL EXECUTION - The programme will be executed by Ministry of Energy and Water in cooperation with Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Employment and Social Security, in close collaboration with provincial governmentss of Luanda and Moxico
UN Partners:	ILO, IOM, UNICEF, OHCHR,GEF
Partnerships:	Ministry of Energy and Water, Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Employment and Social Security, Development Workshop, ILO, IOM, UNICEF, Government of Spain, Provincial Governments of Luanda and Moxico

Brief Description:

Access to drinking water and adequate 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 utility, break down frequently or do not function; in many, suburban areas, water points simply do not exist. 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 contaminated water.

The water and sanitation governance programme aims to promote 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 enhancing the governance of the sector and promoting a rights-based approach to water and sanitation delivery.

More precisely, the programme addresses the issue of un-sustainability of centrally-managed WatSan facilities in poor neighbourhoods, by introducing community ownership and management of Water and Sanitation schemes.

The model of governance proposed in this project entails promoting a network of autonomous units of small and medium scale WatSan utilities owned and managed by communities in the target peri-urban and rural areas of the programme, with the local government at the ‘center’ (of the network) confining its role to monitoring the network, regulating the rural water and sanitation market, pushing for the autonomy of communities in the management of their water and sanitation schemes, and intervening only when a major problem occurs in any one of the units or when a specific need is expressed (for example, the need for funding to upgrade a water post installation or the enforcement of the applicable pricing system).

Project Outputs:

The programme’s main objective is to promote a community-oriented governance of peri-urban and rural water and sanitation through an autonomy-driven institutional, regulatory and accountability system.

To achieve this, the programme will seek to:

i.   establish a pro-poor policy and regulatory framework that feature community participation in the provision and management of WatSan facilities;

  ii.   promote the autonomy of communities in the management of WatSan facilities;

iii.   reinforce the capacity of local governments, namely municípios , to effectively monitor community WatSan management units, mobilize resources and fund community WatSan projects;

iv.   put in place an enhanced accountability system for peri-urban and rural water and sanitation sector.