Swiss support of $11.1 million improves access to water and sanitation in Niassa, Mozambique

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Swiss support of $11.1 million improves access to water and sanitation in Niassa, Mozambique

1:33 CAT | 13 Dec 2024

Photo: MozMidia

More than 250,000 people have benefited from a program financed with US$11.1 million (€10.5 million) from Switzerland to improve access to water and sanitation in Mozambique.

“The GoTAS III program, financed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), has already benefited more than 250,000 people in Niassa,” reads a note released this Friday by the Provincial Executive Council of Niassa, in the north of the country.

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GoTAS is a Water, Sanitation and Health Governance program, established in 2014. It is currently in its third phase, which began in 2022 and is to end in 2025, expected to benefit approximately 653,000 people in Mozambique.

According to the Niassa Executive Council, the program has built 117 boreholes and rehabilitated five health units in the districts of Mandimba, Sanga, Lago, Lichinga and Chimbunila since 2014, and more investment is already planned for 2025.

“For 2025, a new investment of US$853,625 will expand water, sanitation and health infrastructure,” the agency explained, adding that collaboration with partners continues to transform the lives of communities, “promoting a more sustainable future.”

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In August, President of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi, stated that 63.6% of the Mozambican population, corresponding to 20 million people, now have access to drinking water.

“At the beginning of my term in office, in 2015, access to drinking water was at 51%, that is, it supplied 12.6 million people, but when we Mozambicans were 20 million. (…) With the implementation of several programs, especially Água para Vida, the coverage level increased to 63.6%, benefiting around 20 million people in 2024,” said the Mozambican president at the inauguration of the Pemba water supply system, in Cabo Delgado province.

Filipe Nyusi acknowledged that access to water is still “a challenge” for the country and stated that the government would have achieved the target of 100% supply if the Mozambican population had not grown so much.

Source: Lusa