Objectives

• Sustainably improve hygiene practices and access to drinking water and sanitation in rural areas

Intervention areas

• Region of Kankan

Activities

• Raising awareness among families to good hygiene and sanitation practices
• Supporting rural communities and their villages in the construction and rehabilitation of protected hydraulic installations (equipped wells and boreholes)
• Train and support communities to improve their sanitation
• Strengthen the capacity of village committees to manage the equipment
• Set up and strengthen a system for the maintenance of facilities by users (craftsmen-repairers and approved resellers of pump spare parts)
• Strengthen the capacities of local authorities (Regional Water Department and rural communes) for the implementation of a communal “Public Water Service”

Partners

• Village committees in charge of water points management
• Rural communes
• Regional water services, regional sanitation and public hygiene services