The overall objective of the Programme is to contribute to an improvement in the quality of life of people at local level (in rural and peri-urban areas of Swaziland). More specifically, its purpose is the socio-economic empowerment of local communities through improved community organization, increased access to basic services in health, water and sanitation and improved food and income security.
This will be realised through the achievement of the following five results or outputs:
•Increased and improved social infrastructure in rural and peri-urban areas to ensure equitable access to health services;
•Improved water and sanitation facilities in rural and peri-urban areas to ensure equitable access to sanitation and water; Improved agricultural outputs (productivity) to ensure food security in rural and peri-urban areas;
•Improved income generation to enable local communities, and especially women, to maintain structures in the community;
•Empowerment of communities, community based organizations and other non state actors to participate in decentralized governance and increased capacity in local and/or regional authorities to effectively and efficiently manage decentralized processes
In addition, the programme has a significant capacity building component which will attempt to empower communities, CBOs and other NSAs to participate in decentralized governance. It will also capacitate local and regional committees and authorities to engage in decentralized planning processes.
The Government’s health sector policy aims at the reduction of all preventable diseases and the promotion of healthy behaviour at household level. In relation to water, the objective is to provide safe drinking water for all by 2022. This reflects Millennium Development Goal 7 (MDG 7), which concerns environmental sustainability. One of the targets of MDG 7 is to halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. Much progress has been made in Swaziland over recent years in these areas. For example, the proportion of the rural population with access to potable water has increased from 40% in 1997, to 59% in 2007 (Swaziland Demographic and Household Survey (SDHS), 2007). However, maintenance of facilities remains a major challenge. Similarly, the proportion of the rural population with access to facilities that hygienically separate human excreta from human contact has risen from 45% in 2005, to 56.7% in 2007 (SDHS, 2007). Despite these achievements, much more remains to be done.
The global objective of this Call for Proposals is, “To ensure equitable access to potable water and sanitation in rural and peri-urban areas of Swaziland.”
The specific objective of this Call for Proposals is: “To rehabilitate, extend, upgrade or construct micro and small ‘macro’ potable water schemes in rural & peri-urban communities, schools and/or health facilities; to improve sanitation at household level; and to sensitize and educate beneficiaries on cost-effective water and sanitation.”
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