Uganda

Client: Austrian Development Agency (ADA)

Partners: Ugandan Ministry for Water, Lands and Environment, Directorate for Water Development, District Water Offices

Country Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Programme

hydrophil supports the Austrian Development Cooperation at the national level in Uganda in the further development and implementation of its country water sector policy. This involves the formulation of country sector programmes and provision of technical backstopping to support water supply and sanitation project implementation teams. hydrophil has been working in close partnership with Ugandan counterparts to develop some highly innovative programmes and projects, which have been influential in the Ugandan water and sanitation sector. The "South Western Towns Water and Sanitation", "Kitgum Water Supply" and "Kisoro Water Supply" as well as "Kisoro Water Supply Extension" projects are amongst those projects that are recognised as successful interventions by line agencies, donor agencies as well as the communities themselves. Since 12 years, these projects have been introducing innovative solutions in Uganda like standardisation of solar power pumping station for water supply schemes, ecological sanitation at a large scale and new implementation approaches and O & M models for water supply schemes.