Nigeria
Context
Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and is home to over 250 ethnic groups. In 1999 democracy was reintroduced but Nigeria still suffers cultural and religious tensions between groups and despite great natural wealth of oil, gold and diamonds, there is still widespread poverty.
Just over half of Nigerians have access to safe water and 32% have access to sanitation.
Many people spend five hours a day collecting water in dry season, causing huge costs to Nigerian people's productivity and health.
What has WaterAid achieved?
- WaterAid has developed a system to rank vulnerability and ensure the fair allocation of resources.
- Strong partnerships have been established between WaterAid, government and communities.
- WaterAid has disseminated good practices, such as its monitoring and evaluation system, with other water and sanitation providers.
WaterAid's programme work in Nigeria
WaterAid has worked in Nigeria since 1995, assisting with addressing the huge need for water and sanitation.
WaterAid works in seven local areas, in partnership with established non governmental organisations (NGOs) and state and local governments, according to each area's needs.
WaterAid has also developed community health education projects to address the issues of hand washing and cleaning latrines and developed transparent systems of allocations.
Nigeria country strategy 2010-2015
Health is wealth
This film illustrates the health benefits a community-led approach to sanitation can bring, and how these translate to material benefits too.
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Price points
- £3.48 could buy a tap
- £8.70 could buy a hygiene promotion manual
- £30.43 could pay for a mason to construct a family latrine
- £282.61 could pay for the rehabilitation of a village water point
Case study
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Credit: WaterAid /
Suzanne Porter |
Suzanna Tuwan is now a latrine builder in Takkas village in Plateau state.
I would like to see everyone in the village get a latrine than to go to the busy. That is the main reason I decided to learn to build slabs and get our own latrine- to stop my children using the bush. It is not healthy.
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Nigeria Sources:
World Bank (2010) World Development Indicators database - databank.worldbank.org, UNICEF (2010) State of the World's Children 2009 and WHO (2010) World Health Statistics 2010, WHO / UNICEF (2010) Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) report 2010, UNDP (2009) Human Development Report 2010
NB. Official statistics tend to understate the extent of water and sanitation problems, sometimes by a large factor. There are not sufficient resources available for accurate monitoring of either population or coverage. Varying definitions of water and sanitation coverage are used and national figures mask large regional differences in coverage.
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