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Ivory Coast plans to invest €840 million to strengthen sanitation and drainage services over the next seven years. This announcement was made by the director of operations and quality monitoring at the National Office of Sanitation and Drainage (ONAD).
Ivory Coast plans to invest €840 million to strengthen sanitation and drainage services over the next seven years. This announcement was made by the director of operations and quality monitoring at the National Office of Sanitation and Drainage (ONAD).
Ivory Coast will redouble its efforts to finance sanitation and drainage. The West African country’s government is expected to spend 840 million euros on sanitation and drainage projects over the next seven years. This is about five times the portfolio dedicated to sanitation and drainage in the past decade. This decision follows the recent publication of a report on sanitation in the Ivory Coast by the National Office for Sanitation and Drainage (ONAD). According to the document, the rate of access to sanitation in Ivory Coast has increased from 22% in 2011 to 56% in 2021, i.e. 74% in 2021 in urban areas and 32% in 2021 in rural areas. The future infrastructures will support existing works such as flood control dams, rainwater, and wastewater networks, sludge treatment stations, and sludge dumping stations. Ivorian households have also been connected to ONAD’s effluent network, stated an ONAD official.
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The challenge for Ivory Coast is also to reduce flooding, which is partly due to the blockage of pipes by waste. In 2014, ONAD set up the “Pre-rainy season” operation which allows, among other things, the permanent maintenance of primary drainage works, the “punctual” cleaning of drainage works, the treatment of critical points, the setting up of monitoring devices during the rainy season and the release of rights-of-way.
