The UN-HABITAT Lake Victoria Water The UN-HABITAT Lake Victoria Water and Sanitation Initiative (LVWATSAN)and Sanitation Initiative (LVWATSAN)

Supporting Secondary Urban Centres in the Lake Supporting Secondary Urban Centres in the Lake Victoria Region to Achieve the Millennium Victoria Region to Achieve the Millennium

Development GoalsDevelopment Goals

United Nations Human Settlements Programme

Development objective of Development objective of LVWATSANLVWATSAN

To support secondary urban centres in the Lake Victoria Region to enable them to achieve the Water and Sanitation MDGs and, generally, to contribute to an equitable and sustainable development –economic, social, environmental –of Lake Victoria Region, to the benefit of the people living in the area

Guiding Principles of Guiding Principles of Programme Design Programme Design

A model setting exercise for achieving MDG targets and fostering regional development

Community involvement to reach the poor

Ensuring Programme Sustainability– Promoting ownership– Building capacity– Developing sustainable management structures at the local

level

Linking with on-going sector reforms

Flexibility in project planning, design and implementation Integrating physical planning with environmental Infrastructure

Gender mainstreaming

Plan of Implementation Plan of Implementation

PHASE I INITIAL ASSESSMENT (June –Aug 2004)

PHASE II DEVELOPMENT OF INVESTMENT PLANS (Aug – Sept 2004)

PHASE III Preparatory Phase (Jan –June 2005)

PHASE IV Implementation Phase (March 2005 –Dec 2007)

Cost of Proposed InterventionsCost of Proposed Interventions

Country Estimated Total Investment (US $) for MDGs

Estimated population who benefit

Kenya 18,591,631 368,000

Tanzania 19,529,020 387,000

Uganda 13,675,712 224,000

Total 51,769,363 979,000*

*equates to ~ US $ 50 per capita

ConclusionsConclusionsSince June 2004 30 secondary urban centres have been surveyed and documented using a

novel appraisal process Detailed investment plans to achieve the MDGs for water and sanitation have

been developed for 15 urban centres High level political support has been given to the initiative by the three

countries Sub-regional training and capacity-building needs have been identified to

further support and sustain infrastructure investments in the region Cost of the assessment was approx. US $ 100,000

For investment of circa million US$ 52, the MDGs could be achieved within a 4 year period in the selected secondary urban centres, thus improving the livelihoods of many of the un-served and underpinning economic growth for the region

Funded through the UN-HABITAT Water & Sanitation Trust Fund

Principal support has been sought from the Governments of Netherlands, Sweden & the EU