Download - Urban Water Sector Reform and Port-Harcourt Water Supply and Sanitation Project
The Urban Water Sector Reform and Port-Harcourt Water Supply and Sanitation Project aims to: (i) Provide sustainable access to safe drinking water and sanitation to the residents of Port-Harcourt city in Rivers State and (ii) Strengthen the Federal Government’s capacity to reform the urban water supply and sanitation sector and improve service delivery across the country.
The project cost is estimated at UA 225.56 million, of which AfDB is financing UA
133.66 million or 59%, the World Bank 27%, Rivers State Government 14% and the Federal Government 0.3%. The project is expected to start in 2014 with a duration of five years. The project outputs for Port-Harcourt include: (i) A rehabilitated and expanded water supply system, and sanitation facilities constructed; (ii) Support provided to the Port-Harcourt Water Corporation, with tariffs, management systems, and pro-poor measures implemented, and operations outsourced to a private operator; (iii) Hygiene, sanitation and environmental health promotion undertaken, and a Sanitation and Waste Water Management plan developed with resources mobilised for its implementation. The main beneficiaries in Port-Harcourt are the 1.3 million residents expected to live in the project area by 2019 who will benefit from improved water services and sanitary conditions. The beneficiaries will be involved in the project through customer outreach activities and capacity-building initiatives.
On the Federal level, the project’s Urban Water Reform component will establish an urban water and sanitation investment programme and scale up performance monitoring of the urban water and sanitation sub-sector, which will directly benefit the Federal Ministry of Water Resources as they will be able to lead the sector more effectively. Indirectly, urban residents in all States will benefit from the improved performance of water utilities.
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