EU boosts water and sanitation in IDP camps in north

One may ask, how northern Uganda is getting water, as you can see people move and night looking for water, then you really wonder how people in the camps are now facing the rough time.


The head of European delegation to Uganda, Ambassador Vincent de-visscher has launched a three year water and sanitation umbrella project in IDP camps in Acholi sub region.

The project to cost 7,710,994,000 will benefit approximately 149,000(IDPS) Internally displaced persons leaving in IDP camps in Kitgum and Pader districts.
Visscher said the funds were made available under the ACP-EU water facility, a project that was launched in 2004.

Its special objective is to boost the sustainable delivery of water, sanitation infrastructure and improving water governance in the areas affected by the LRA insurgency.


“We want the IDPs to return back home because we still have more activities to carry. We want to help IDPs as they plan to return home,” Visscher he said.


The Water and Sanitation Programme (WASUP) was selected for funding under the 1st call for proposal of the water facility working within the framework of the Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP).


The WASUP’s main objective is to address the basic needs of access to safe water and basic hygienic sanitation of the communities in the war ravaged areas of Kitgum and Pader districts.

In lights of peace returning to the region, the ambassador said the WASUP programme will address the water and sanitation needs in the communities returning homes as well as those who choose to remain in the camps.

“To this effect, the programme must be implemented in flexible way so as to be able to address and accommodate changing needs,” Visscher said.
He said the project is in support of the government’s recovery and reconstruction programme in northern Uganda.

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