Status:
Complete
Location:
Nakuru - Kenya
Region:
Africa
Total cost:
USD $5,700,000
Duration:
4 years 11 months
Start:
31 December 2012
End:
30 December 2017
Working Areas
Business Planning
Service in Low-Income Areas
Waste-water Collection & Treatment
Organizations Involved
Nakuru Water & Sanitation Services Company — Lead Mentee
VEI Dutch Water Operators — Lead Mentor
Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP)
Supporting Org
EU Water Facility
Funder
SDGs
6.1Universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all
Project description
The aim of this WOP is to expand the water services both sanitation and drinking water
Project main objectives
The overall objective of the plan is to demonstrate and implement a commercially viable sanitation value chain, benefiting residents of unsewered (peri-) urban low income areas in Nakuru County. More specific objectives are the following:
1) Increase hygiene awareness and sanitation coverage (towards 95%) in Nakuru Town and County.
2) Establish collection facilities and large scale transport services for hygienic and financially sustainable capture and removal of human excreta from the low income areas.
3) Controlled and certified production and sales of human excreta products.
4) Demonstrate financial sustainability of the implemented sanitation value chain.
5) Upscale the outcomes of the project to other towns and cities in Kenya.