WaterAid Burkina Faso's strategy

WaterAid strives to halve the proportion of people without access to safe water and basic sanitation by 2015.

Credit: WaterAid / Suzanne Porter

Over 2006-2011 WaterAid Burkina Faso will support local governments to meet Millenium Developement Goal (MDG) targets on water and sanitation provision.

A target within goal 7, ensuring environmental sustainability, commits world governments to halving the proportion of people without access to safe water and basic sanitation by 2015 - two services recognised as essential steps on the road out of poverty.

Wateraid helps achieve this target by increasing sanitation work; maximising the impact of investment in water supply and investigating sustainability and regeneration of water resources.

The country programme will focus on existing intervention areas to consolidate the work carried out during the last three years. To do this, WaterAid Burkina Faso will sign tripartite agreements with local governments and current partners.

Strategic aims and objectives of the country programme

The country programme's strategic aims and objectives builds on strategy analysis and corporate strategy. For the next five years, the country programme will focus on the following strategic aims.

Strategic aim 1: To provide 100,000 people with sustainable access to drinking water and sanitation and ensure that a further 50,000  people per year are provided with sustainable access to drinking water and sanitation through local initiatives by 2011. This willl be achieved through the following objectives.

• Build infrastructure and service provision to ensure 100,000 poor people per year gain sustainable access to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene practices in WaterAid intervention areas by 2011.
• Support local partners to raise their own funds, while keeping a strong advisory role on how these funds are spent, to ensure a further 50,000 people get  access water and sanitation every year by 2011. 
• Ensure that at least 30% of its funds are invested in urban work by 2011.
• Ensure that all future water supply and sanitation projects supported by WaterAid Burkina Faso address the issues of water depletion and contamination through appropriate integrated water resource management.
• Maximise the impact of projects on communities as a whole, especially the most vulnerable.

Strategic aim 2: WaterAid Burkina Faso will seek to influence sector stakeholders to prioritise water and sanitation for the poorest people by 2011. The following objectives are included in this aim.

• Highlight to sector stakeholders that sustainable and equitable water and sanitation services are vital to achieving the overall Millennium Development Goal of poverty reduction and the targets on health, education and the environment.
• Monitor, support and lobby other organisations to strengthen their own water and sanitation work.
• Increase awareness among the general public of the water rights of poor people in collaboration with the CCEPA and the media networks.

Strategic Aim  3: WaterAid Burkina Faso will build the capacities of 27 local governments to provide pro-poor water and sanitation services on a larger scale.

Strategic Aim 4: WaterAid Burkina Faso will make adequate investments in planning, capacity building and learning by achieving the following objectives.

• Develop a multi annual resource allocation model, accountability and responsibility management and compulsory master plans of operations within a clear strategic planning process.
• Develop a comprehensive capacity building framework.
• Maximise learning from both its own work with partners and that of others.

Strategic aim 5: WaterAid Burkina Faso will develop innovative approaches and new funding sources to increase annual income to £1 million per year by 2011.

Strategic aim 6: WaterAid Burkina Faso will enhance and sustain its organisational development.

• Ensure a sound financial management system is in place at all levels to ensure financial integrity.
• Manage the organisational growth and change over the next five years.