Morocco: OBA Subsidies to Water

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Morocco OBA Subsidies to Water Sanitation
Connections in Poor Peri-urban Areas

• The GPOBA pilot and the full scale INMAE project
  in the Greater Casablanca

Christophe Cluzeau (LYDEC) Alain Mathys (Suez
Environment)
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Background Lydec

• 30 years concession contract started on August
  1st, 1997
• Management of 3 public services
• water
• sewerage
• electricity
• Delegated authority Regional Authority of
  Greater Casablanca
• Total population 4,5 million
• Population without adequate access to water and
  sewerage
• close to 1 million
• (145,000 households)

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INMAE objective household connections for
145,000 families before 2010

• in urban areas
• in rural areas

INMAE project is integrated into the National
Initiative for Human Development (INDH)
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Types of low income settlements
Rural
Urban
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The GPOBA pilot

• 2 neighborhoods
• Lahraouiyine (5.580 households)
• Lemkensa (7.996 households)

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Value added of the GPOBA pilot

• Understand the issues and put the problems on the
  table (progressive land tenure and ownership
  regularization, recognition of the population in
  illegal settlements, financing needs, etc.)
• Clarify the role of all parties and allocate
  clear responsibilities on how to solve these
  problems
• Strengthen the partnership between the parties,
  for and beyond the pilots, based on shared
  development objectives
• Adapt LYDECs organization to meet INMAE
  objective (70 staff dedicated to the
  project)

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Challenges aheadINMAE in Casablanca
Before 2010
145 000 Hhs
Relocation is integrated in publicly funded
programs What about on site upgrading?
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Challenges aheadINMAE in Casablanca

• Needs to expand service to On site upgrading
• Estimated cost US 137m
• Available local financing mechanisms (LYDEC,
  investment funds, user connection fees, local
  institutions) US 87m
• Financing gap US 50m
• Next steps
• How to finance pilot project scale up ?
• What role for the World Bank Group ?

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Thank you