WPTD Strategy: Water, People, Territories and Development
It is a strategy of mobilization of actors, around ambitions and results (obligation of result much more than of means)
Global Objective
Contribuer à la sécurité de l’eau et à un accès durable à des services d’eau et d’assainissement pour 1,1M de personnes en Afrique tous les 10 ans.
Specific Objectives
- To build and develop in each territory infrastructures, a sustainable governance of water and sanitation services (Political, Strategic, Technical, Financial) and more broadly for a better functioning of the community and its institutions;
- Promote IWRM and strengthen the resilience of stakeholders and their territories to climate risks, conflicts of use of water resources, ... ;
- Strengthen/implement sustainable water and sanitation services (infrastructure, management capacity, willingness and ability to pay, etc.);
WPTD Strategy: Water, People, Territories and Development
- The right to water for all living beings, the duty to realize it;
- Water is a global issue, but it is above all a local action (responsibility, initiative, capacities, solidarity, etc.) and then external support (skills, financial and material complements, etc.);
- Water a big issue for the Sahel
A 3 dimensional approach:
- Territorial and thematic concentration: Intervention in one or more clusters of territories (municipalities/regions) around:
security of raw water resources (e.g. IWRM projects, Clean Gold, etc.)
multiple uses of water as well as around environmental hygiene and sanitation - (more measurable impacts over time, economies of scale, etc.),
a holistic approach (several interconnected components) with greater transversality
steering no longer by project/program but on a local/regional/national grid. - Concentration in terms of time: Long-term intervention (10 to 15 years – e.g. Zorgho in Burkina Faso);
- Concentration in terms of resources (leverage effect): Multi-partnerships (political, strategic, technical, financial); work in synergy to build a critical mass of intervention resources (pooling of resources, economies of scale, etc.).