URBIS ABIDJAN COTE DIVOIRE

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URBIS ABIDJAN- COTE DIVOIRE

• Activity 1 WATER PROGRAM
• Objective Connect 8,000 households (4 slums
  Koweit, Sagbé, Gesco, and Grand Campement) to the
  potable water network using the government
  subsidy.
• Government subsidy policy
• Slums dwellers have limited access to clean water.

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URBIS ABIDJAN- WATER PROGRAM
Strategy
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URBIS ABIDJAN- WATER PROGRAM
Training Activities

• Training of trainers
• Theoretical and practical training of 60 youths
  and 20 members of the neighborhood committees
  (CARs) on
• Household mobilization
• Registration formalities and forms
• Efficient use of water in home
• Income generating activities linked to water.
• Training of households 
• Training 8,000 households on water connection and
  usage
• Registration formalities / properly filling out
  forms
• Efficient use of water / managing payment of
  bills
• Income generating activities and fraud
  prevention.
• Create 4 local water network management SMEs
• Technical training of the best 16 local trainers
  on
• - Monitoring of water networks and prevention of
  fraud
• Ensuring payment of bills
• Advising households on water usage.

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URBIS ABIDJAN- WATER PROGRAM
Lobbying and Expected Results

• Lobbying
• Lobby the governments water division and SODECI
  (private water company).
• Results
• Change subsidy policy (access requirements)
• Increase subsidy funding and extend program to
  all slums in Abidjan
• Outsourcing SODECI activities in slums.

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URBIS ABIDJAN- COTE DIVOIRE
Activity 2 SANITATION

• Objective Ensure better waste collection in
  slums by professionalizing a major federation of
  pre-collectors (FEPSUCI) through capacity
  building.

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URBIS ABIDJAN- SANITATION
Strategy
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URBIS ABIDJAN- SANITATION
Training Activities

• Professionalize waste collection activities in
  slums through 3 training sessions to FEPSUCI
  members
• First session
• Business structures/legal entities
• Fund-raising strategies.
• Second session
• Drafting contracts
• Financial and administrative management.
• Third session
• Planning and implementing pre-collection
  activities
• Choosing adequate equipment and sizing
  operating teams.

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URBIS ABIDJAN- SANITATION
Lobbying Activities and Expected Results

• Lobbying
• Lobby ANASUR (govt entity managing waste
  collection), large waste collection companies,
  Ministry, of Cities and Urban Salubrity, and
  Presidents Sanitation Advisor.
• Results
• Include pre-collection activities in public
  service solicitations
• Allow SMEs of pre-collectors to compete for
  public service solicitations and obtain contracts
  with the appropriate authority.

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RESULTS ACHIEVED

• Official launch of Urbis/Abidjan in September
  2008
• Activity 1 Water supply to slums
• Identification and selection of all local
  trainers in 4 slums to teach households how to
• a) access a government subsidy to register and
  connect to the water network b) more efficiently
  manage water and its hygienic use c) pay bills
  on time to ensure sustainable access to this
  service.
• Training of trainers.
• Mobilization of households to participate in
  Urbis program.
• Activity 2 Sanitation in slums (waste
  collection)
• Training of pre-collectors completed in business
  structures/legal entities, fund-raising
  strategies, drafting contracts, and financial and
  administrative management.