Evaluation PCAEA Lausanne – Nouakchott (Projet Communautaire d’Accès à l’Eau et à l’Assainissement)
Location
Riyad Municipality, Nouakchott Region, Mauritania
project period
September 2018 – April 2019
client
Service de l’eau, Ville de Lausanne
Services provided
Facilitation & Innovative Learning
Partner organisation
Tenmiya (Centre des Innovations pour le Dévelopement)
In 2009, Lausanne established a partnership with the city of Nouakchott to support the extension of its water network in a new district not taken into account in the water utility’s master plan. Since, the partnership has gone through 3 phases with the actual one ending late 2018. The corresponding learning-oriented evaluation was set up as a process conducted by specialists of the local NGO Tenmiya supported by experts of Skat.
In 2008, the city council of Lausanne voted a law establishing a solidarity water fund to improve water & sanitation in developing countries: for each m3 of drinking water sold to the citizens, the equivalent of one cent is taken off and fuels the fund. Subsequently, Lausanne established a partnership with the city of Nouakchott (Mauritania) to support the extension of the piped water network in a resettlement area not included in the master plan of the national water utility. Since, 18 communes in the Romandie have joined the partnership under the label “solidarit’eau”. In addition to the fund, Lausanne provides capacity and institution building support to its partner: this public-public partnership is exemplary in Switzerland and has so far not yet been replicated.