The overall objective of the Lake Victoria Water and Sanitation Initiative is to make a substantial and rapid contribution to the achievement of internationally agreed water and sanitation goals in secondary towns in the Lake Victoria region in East Africa, involving 15 urban settlements and 1 million people in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. This model-setting initiative seeks to demonstrate the balance between innovative approaches to investment in physical infrastructure and investments in capacity-building for sustainability. The Initiative has set clear quantitative targets for the number of persons to be provided with improved access to water and sanitation services within an agreed timeframe. The overriding goal of the Initiative is thus to improve living conditions of the urban poor in the Lake Victoria Region and protect local and regional environments. In order to meet this goal, LVWATSAN aims to: - Expedite pro-poor water and sanitation investments in secondary towns
- Enhance institutional and human resource capacities at local and regional levels
- Operationalise sector reforms
- Enhance capacities of local private sector entities in service delivery
- Reduce the adverse environmental impact of urbanization on local environment
- Support economic development in secondary towns through improved water and sanitation, and related income generating activities
- Support cooperation between the countries of the East African Region
Specific Objectives - Promote pro-poor water and sanitation investments in the secondary urban centres in the Lake Victoria RegionĀ
- Support development of institutional and human resource capacities at local and regional levels for the sustainable delivery of improved water and sanitation services
- Facilitate realization of upstream water sector reforms at the local level in the participating urban centres
- Reduce the environmental impact of urbanization in the Lake Victoria Basin
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