Bafatá Misti Iagu - Water Supply and Management to the city of Bafatá

Implemented between 2010 and 2012 (30 months), Bafatá Misti Iagu ("Bafatá wants Water" in Guinean Creole) has allowed, through an integrated approach in three components - infrastructures, institutional and educational:

• Increase coverage of drinking water supply from 24.9% to 48.6% (7,875 beneficiaries);
• Empowering local institutions (29 sessions, 219 participants - 76 are women);
• Raise the community awareness to hygiene/consumer-payer principle (more than 19,000 beneficiaries).

• Expand the sustainable access to drinking water in the city of Bafatá from 20% to 40% of the city population

4 Results were provided in connection with different optical sustainability of water supply in the city:

• R1. Management model os water supply optimized to ensures accessto water in a sustainable way;
• R2. Local Actors of the Water Sector trained and able to implement the management model;
• R3. Infrastructures rehabilitated and able to provide safe water;
• R4. Awareness campaign implemented (Environmental Education, Consumer-Payer and Hygiene).