This is a €800,000 project funded by The Netherlands cooperation service SNV, which manages the Non-State Actors' funds (NSA) of the OmiDelta programme in the Netherlands. This NSA fund is an instrument for financing non state actors who are active in the WASH and IWRM in Benin. The Governance Component is implemented by a consortium including CWP-Benin, the NGO ALCRER and Social WATCH Benin over a two-year period from January 2018 to December 2020. CWP-Benin is coordinating the activities of the consortium.
The official launching ceremony was under the leadership of the Secretary General of the Ministry of Water and Energy, who was represented. More than eighty participants from various sectors including Water and Sanitation, Health, structures at the Central level, as well as at the decentralized level, Municipalities, the private sector, civil society organizations attended the event.
The Project aims to contribute to the strengthening of the capacities of structures in charge of the consultation or monitoring of the respect of human rights related to water and the improvement of climate resilience, equity and sustainability in water management in the Ouémé Delta. Two specific objectives, one related to WASH and the other to IWRM, are linked to the overall objective on improving integrity monitoring and promotion mechanisms for an enabling environment for professional management of the WASH sub-sector and for quality service development initiatives. The other one on improving water resources governance in the in the Lower and Middle Ouémé Valley (BMVO) sub-basin and more particularly in the Ouémé Delta
The direct beneficiaries of this project are organizations of the NSAs of the National Water Council (CNE); civil society organizations (Drinking water consumer association), the Framework for Consultation of Non-State Actors in Water and Sanitation (CANEA); the youth associations companies/youth groups and women's organizations in the water sector.
The final beneficiaries are the populations living along the watercourses, particularly those affected by the effects of climate change-related flooding, ii) the direct users of water resources (fishermen, farmers, pastoralists), iii) water ecosystem managers in the Ouémé Delta, iv) populations in Benin, particularly those affected by the failure to respect human rights related to water.
