Policies and strategies
- The Government of Burkina Faso adopted an Action Plan for Integrated Water Resources Management (Plan d'Action pour la Gestion Intégrée des Ressources en Eau - PAGIRE) in 2003. The action plan complements a series of management tools prescribed by the governing law on water management and lays out the decentralization of the water supply and sanitation sector.
- Ouagadougou and Bobo Diolasso, Burkina Faso’s two largest cities, have adopted strategic sanitation plans.
- In December 2006, the Government of Burkina Faso adopted a National Programme for Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation until 2015 (Programme National d'Approvisionnement en Eau Potable et d'Assainissement à l’horizon 2015 - PN-AEPA) in accordance with the Strategic Framework for Fighting Poverty (Cadre Stratégique de Lutte contre la Pauvreté - CSLP) in order to achieve the MDG water and sanitation target by 2015.
- In July 2007, the Government of Burkina Faso adopted the National Sanitation Policy and Strategy (Politique et Stratégie Nationales d'Assainissement - PSNA). PSNA establishes general principles of intervention, gives strategic orientations, and defines the roles and responsibilities among the main sector stakeholders. It also covers solid, liquid and gaseous waste as well as storm water.
- In November 2007, the Government of Burkina Faso adopted the National Programme of Action for Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change (Programme d'Action National d'Adaptation à la variabilité et aux changements climatiques - PANA).
Institutions
- The Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Fisheries (MAHRH) has overall responsibility for water supply and sanitation. The current structure divides responsibility between the General Directorate of Water Resources (Direction Générale des Ressources en Eaux - DGRE) for water and the General Directorate for Waste Water Sanitation and Human Excreta (Direction Générale de l’Assainissement des Eaux Usées et Excréta - DGAEUE) for sanitation in rural and semi-urban areas (defined as fewer than 10,000 people).
- The National Office for Water and Sanitation (Office National de l'Eau et de l'Assainissement - ONEA), a public company, is in charge of urban water supply and sanitation.
- DGRE and DGAEUE operate out of provincial offices; ONEA operates via a public-private partnership with delegated management contracts throughout the country.
- A National Coordination Body for the Implementation of the PN-AEPA (Comité National de Pilotage du PN-AEPA) has been set up including sub-committees in each region.
- Coordination: There are several coordination mechanisms in the sector, but none specific for sanitation. The National Water Council (Conseil National de l’Eau - CNEau) subsumes a wide range of sector stakeholders: ministries, local governments, river basin organisations, religious authorities, public services, associations, universities and NGOs. The Technical Water Committee (Comité Technique de l’Eau - CTE) is an inter-ministerial working group. A consultative framework for civil societies called CCEPA (Cadre de Concertation des ONGs et Associations du Secteur de l’Eau Potable, Assainissment et Hygiène) was set up in July 2004 with members of NGOs and associations to meet occasionally. The WASH Coalition is active since 2003.
