Water for Mohoro – Expanding Access to Safe Drinking Water in the Municipality of Itsahidi
The project
THE CONTEXT
As part of their decentralized cooperation partnership, the Ngazidja Governorate and the Dunkirk Urban Community (DUC) launched a project in 2022 to provide drinking water to six villages in the municipality of Itsahidi. This project, now completed, has provided the population with infrastructure for access to drinking water and a municipal water service. The latter involves a management model that is innovative for the country, bringing together the National Water Distribution and Operations Company (SONEDE) and a professionalized community association, the Municipal Water Services Group (GCSE).
This new project, which can be viewed as a second phase, aims to expand drinking water coverage to new villages in the municipality, including the municipal seat, Foumbouni. Building on the awareness-raising strategy implemented between 2022 and 2025, the project seeks to support the new service as it establishes its structure, while also incorporating a program to improve access to water, sanitation, and hygiene in the municipality’s elementary schools.
In the field
AIMS AND ACTIVITIES
Objectives
- Improve the health conditions of residents in the villages of the Itsahidi municipality by improving their access to safe drinking water and sanitation.
Main activities
- Extend the drinking water network from Midjendjeni to the villages of Ndzouani and Dzahadjou; rehabilitate part of the water infrastructure; and construct a new drinking water supply network for three new villages—Mohoro, Nioumadzaha, and the district capital, Foumbouni—in the northeastern part of the municipality.
- Raising awareness among local stakeholders about issues related to water, sanitation, and service management through the 2Mains association.
- Support and organizational development for the GCSE community association and SONEDE.
- Implementation of a program to improve access to safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene in 9 elementary schools.
AROUND THE PROJECT
Lead local partner
2Mains
Actors and partners
- Ngazidja Governorate / CUD: co-project owners
- Itsahidi Municipality: the State’s delegated project owner.
- SONEDE: national company responsible for water operations and distribution, co-manager of the water service
- GCSE: Groupement Communal des Services de l’Eau, co-manager of the water service
Funders
AFD - Facilite FICOL, Communauté urbaine de Dunkerque, Syndicat l'eau du Dunkerquois, AEAP, Région Hauts-de-France, Ambassade de France en Union des Comores, AELB, Morlaix Communauté, OIF
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