N$1.64 Billion Needed for Sanitation - by Wezi Tjaronda
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WINDHOEK - Namibia will have to provide 25 000 sanitation facilities every year to its population for the country to reach the Millennium Development Goal of halving the number of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.
With six years to go before 2015, about 1.4 million rural and informal settlement dwellers in urban areas, representing 67 percent of the population have no access to improved sanitation and use the bush.
The sanitation sector vision is to have a healthy environment and improved quality of life for 66 percent of the population in 2015, by halving the proportion of people without sustainable access to basic sanitation, reaching 57 percent coverage in rural areas and 80 percent coverage in urban areas.
Sanitation provision has been going on albeit at a slow pace due to lack of coordination, lack of knowledge on sanitation issues, lack of safe hygiene practices insufficient resources to enforce regulations and national standard relating to public health.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry and its partners involved in the water and sanitation sector yesterday met to deliberate on a draft Five Year National Sanitation Strategy which outlines approaches and activities that the sanitation sector intends to take to achieve sustainable access in the medium term.
According to the draft strategy, Namibia will require an estimated N$1.64 billion over the five-year term. In year five (2014/15), the target is to reach 90 percent of the total population with general awareness and education campaigns, provide improve sanitation to 52 500 additional urban and 97 500 rural households.
By that year, 90 percent of public institutions would have been reached by adequate sanitation facilitated.
Addressing the workshop, Minister John Mutorwa said sanitation coverage in rural areas should be considered a national problem that requires a national approach and active participation from all sectors.
"Although Namibia can be applauded for the provision of improved access to clean water, progress on sanitation is slow and not a pleasing one,"¯ he said. Latest census statistics indicate that access to water in rural and urban areas is 98 and 80 percent respectively while 82 percent of urban dwellers and 21 percent rural households in rural areas have access to sanitation.
Cabinet approved the Water and Sanitation Sector Policy in 1993. The provision of the facilities was then coordinated under the Ministry of Health and Social Services while that of water was under the Agriculture ministry.
The policy that was reviewed last year and was replaced by the Water Supply and Sanitation Policy (WSASP) gives the mandate to coordinate the provision sanitation services in rural areas to the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry.
The strategy was developed by consultants with European Union funding and is based on a situational analysis report compiled after consultations in Khomas, Otjozondjupa, Kunene, Omusati, and Ohangwena and Oshana regions.
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With six years to go before 2015, about 1.4 million rural and informal settlement dwellers in urban areas, representing 67 percent of the population have no access to improved sanitation and use the bush.
The sanitation sector vision is to have a healthy environment and improved quality of life for 66 percent of the population in 2015, by halving the proportion of people without sustainable access to basic sanitation, reaching 57 percent coverage in rural areas and 80 percent coverage in urban areas.
Sanitation provision has been going on albeit at a slow pace due to lack of coordination, lack of knowledge on sanitation issues, lack of safe hygiene practices insufficient resources to enforce regulations and national standard relating to public health.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry and its partners involved in the water and sanitation sector yesterday met to deliberate on a draft Five Year National Sanitation Strategy which outlines approaches and activities that the sanitation sector intends to take to achieve sustainable access in the medium term.
According to the draft strategy, Namibia will require an estimated N$1.64 billion over the five-year term. In year five (2014/15), the target is to reach 90 percent of the total population with general awareness and education campaigns, provide improve sanitation to 52 500 additional urban and 97 500 rural households.
By that year, 90 percent of public institutions would have been reached by adequate sanitation facilitated.
Addressing the workshop, Minister John Mutorwa said sanitation coverage in rural areas should be considered a national problem that requires a national approach and active participation from all sectors.
"Although Namibia can be applauded for the provision of improved access to clean water, progress on sanitation is slow and not a pleasing one,"¯ he said. Latest census statistics indicate that access to water in rural and urban areas is 98 and 80 percent respectively while 82 percent of urban dwellers and 21 percent rural households in rural areas have access to sanitation.
Cabinet approved the Water and Sanitation Sector Policy in 1993. The provision of the facilities was then coordinated under the Ministry of Health and Social Services while that of water was under the Agriculture ministry.
The policy that was reviewed last year and was replaced by the Water Supply and Sanitation Policy (WSASP) gives the mandate to coordinate the provision sanitation services in rural areas to the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry.
The strategy was developed by consultants with European Union funding and is based on a situational analysis report compiled after consultations in Khomas, Otjozondjupa, Kunene, Omusati, and Ohangwena and Oshana regions.
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