Benin (nationwide):Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Facilities
Disciplines
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Sanitation
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Water Supply
Companies
Dorsch International Consultants
Client
Société National des Eaux du Bénin (SONEB)
Duration
From 2005 to 2008
Project Activities
- Institutional support to SONEB
- organisational development
- human resource development
- financing and accounting
- data processing
- project management and reporting
- Improvement to water supply and sanitation operations and maintenance in three to five pilot towns
- Updating the national potable water masterplan, including production of annual investment plans
- Proposals for the attribution of competence and duties to both SONEB and the respective town councils, as well as for the consultations with Direction Générale de l’Hydraulique (DGH) which is responsible for the management of water resources nation-wide.
Contact
Dorsch International Consultants GmbH
München (Headquarters)
80687 München
Germany
Phone: +49 89 5797-0
Fax: +49 89 5797-800
E-Mail: info@dorsch.de
Description
The current lack of hygienically safe potable water and large-scale absence of sanitary facilities in the country represents a major hindrance in the social and economic development, with particular reference to the fight against poverty.
The provision of facilities to offset these deficits in the urban environment represents the primary objective of the German Government’s contribution to this nationwide programme of urban and rural water development.
Specifically, this is to be achieved by hands-on support to the newly-founded SONEB in the provision of water services to its clients.
The project is being carried out mainly by an expatriate team (comprising German, French and Algerian staff totalling 54 man-months), assisted by short-term local inputs from the Benin joint venture partner (5 MM).