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Momodou
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Posted - 21 Jan 2013 : 18:02:45
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THE EU-GAMBIA 9.6 MILLION EUROS (421 MILLION DALASI) RURAL WATER SUPPLY PROJECT
by Abdoulie G. Dibba
Foroyaa: Published on Monday, 21 January 2013
The Rural Water Supply Sector Support (RWSSS) project was designed to increase access to safe, clean and portable drinking water supply and basic sanitation to people living in the rural and peri-urban areas.
The European Union contributed €6, 8 million (9.6 million Dollar or 313 million Dalasi) which was 100% of the total cost of the project.
The project kicked off at the end of 2006 and operational activities of the project ended in 2010 and the project itself closed in 2012.
By the time of its closure, the project facilitated the provision of 80 large diameter wells equipped with hand pumps; the installation of 25 solar powered water supply systems; extension of 9 peri-urban water supply systems; improvements of operational and maintenance arrangements for water supply facilities; the strengthening of the Department for Water Resources' institutional capacity to improve sanitation, hygiene practice and quality monitoring.
As at the end of the project, 164 new water supply systems were installed throughout the length and breadth of the country benefitting approximately 113, 500 rural and peri-rural residents.
Editor's Note
Foroyaa will indicate the villages that benefitted from the project and ask the Gambian people whether the money relied on to implement the projects amounts to chicken change as claimed by the executive in rejecting the seventeen proposals for media, prison, Constitutional and legal reforms. Source: Foroyaa
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Nyarikangbanna
United Kingdom
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Posted - 22 Jan 2013 : 00:11:09
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According to my research, some of the beneficiary villages are;Berending and Bonto in the Kombo East,Bintang, Bajana and Sangajorr in the Fonis. Some unidentified villages in Kombo south also benefitted. In total 431 villages country-wide benefited and over 115,000 people, according to Bernard Gomes, Assistant Director, Department of Water Resources. However, the EU Mission in Banjul put the figure at 'about 113,500'.
Lamin K Bajo, Minister of Fisheries and Water Resources expressed appreciation to the EU for the funding at a handover ceremony last tuesday while the Foreign Minister, Momodou Tangara described the RWSSS as a good provision for the poorer section of the Gambian community.
The funding form part of EU's 9th EDF country Strategy for The Gambia and amount invoved is 6.8Million Euros, not 9.6Million Euros as Foroyaa headline inadvertently put it.
I was going to post my own findings on this one tonight but since Foroyaa has captured most of what I was going to report, I thought I might just do this supplementary.
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Edited by - Nyarikangbanna on 22 Jan 2013 07:43:29 |
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toubab1020
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Posted - 22 Jan 2013 : 11:12:00
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Nyarikangbanna you see Bantaba is very fast moving on some topics People,(yes, in important places too I bet !) have read your first research they have the go about what interests readers,your EU Gambia research has caught the imagination of many. |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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Edited by - toubab1020 on 22 Jan 2013 13:53:52 |
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