Burkina Faso has received some 40 billion CFA francs from Denmark for the water and sanitation sector, the Economy and Finance Ministry has told APA.
The current access rate to clean water in Burkina Faso is 61 per cent, with 40,000 wells and boreholes, and 1,500 dams and other retaining reservoir. The underground water reserves are estimated at 113.5 billion cubic meters, but with only 9.5 billion cubic meters usable. Burkina Faso is working hard to totally cover the needs of the people in terms of clean water supply.
For that purpose, the country had launched in 2007, a fund raising operation for the National Water and Sanitation Programme (Pnea-BF), the total cost of which is estimated at 543 million CFA francs.
This program running until 2015 seeks to address the water supply and sanitation problems, so that by 2015, Burkina Faso can cover 83 per cent of the country’s clean water needs and sanitize 55 per cent of its urban and rural areas.
Development cooperation between Denmark and Burkina Faso started in 1973, and in 1993, Denmark chose Burkina Faso as program-country. Denmark is an important bilateral donor for Burkina Faso, with a total annual support to the tune of 17 billion CFA francs.
The major areas covered by development cooperation between Denmark and Burkina Faso include water and sanitation (30 per cent,) agriculture (25 per cent,) education (10 per cent,) macro economy (20 per cent,) energy (5 per cent,) decentralization and human rights (5 per cent,) and HIV/AIDS (5 per cent.)
Source African Press Agency
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