West Africa: Sanitation
(asked on 4th September 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent on (a) physical infrastructure and (b) hygiene promotion for water, sanitation and hygiene services in (i) rural and (ii) urban areas in (1) Sierra Leone and (2) Liberia in each of the last five years; and what such spending her Department has planned for in each of the next three years.
DFID has spent the following on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Services (WASH) programmes in Sierra Leone and Liberia in each of the last five years, from its bilateral aid budget:
2009 (GBP millions) | 2010 (GBP millions) | 2011 (GBP millions) | 2012 (GBP millions) | 2013 (GBP millions) | Total (GBP millions) | |
Sierra Leone | £3.2 | £3.2 | £4.4 | £11.2 | £15.3 | £37.4 |
Liberia | £4 | £0.4 | £2.5 | £6.8 | ||
£7.2 | £3.6 | £4.4 | £11.2 | £17.8 | £44.2 |
This includes work on both physical infrastructure and hygiene promotion in rural and urban areas; however the data is not broken down in the format requested.
These programmes resulted in over 1 million people gaining access to improved sanitation facilities in Sierra Leone and more than 250 tonnes of municipal solid waste being collected in Monrovia through proper channels.
The ongoing Ebola outbreak, which began in 2014, has devastated both countries. DFID has continued to provide support to WASH as part of our unprecedented £427m response to the crisis. In July this year, the Secretary of State approved a new £240m package to support the government of Sierra Leone in their plans to recover from the outbreak, as well as an additional £6m for the Government of Liberia. Programming, which is now underway, is likely to continue to include significant support for the WASH sector.