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Water and Sanitation Program - Africa : Empowering communities to improve water and sanitation services. Training course
Private Sector to Operate All Rural Water Supply Systems in Senegal In just under two decades, the number of motorized boreholes in Senegal has quadrupled to about 1,400 water supply points, providing drinking water to
73 percent of the rural population in the West African nation. The Government of Senegal has decided to transfer the maintenance of all rural water systems to private operators before January 2010. This is in large part due to financial, human resource, and logistic constraints of the maintenance directorate in the ministry responsible for rural water
development.
After more than 10 years of successful urban water sector reforms in Senegal, the r[...]

Water and Sanitation Program - Africa : Empowering communities to improve water and sanitation services. Training course
Private Sector to Operate All Rural Water Supply Systems in Senegal In just under two decades, the number of motorized boreholes in Senegal has quadrupled to about 1,400 water supply points, providing drinking water to
73 percent of the rural population in the West African nation. The Government of Senegal has decided to transfer the maintenance of all rural water systems to private operators before January 2010. This is in large part due to financial, human resource, and logistic constraints of the maintenance directorate in the ministry responsible for rural water
development.
After more than 10 years of successful urban water sector reforms in Senegal, the rural water supply sector is now opening up to private sector participation. This approach builds on lessons learned from a successful pilot project mplemented over the past 10 years, which saw the engagement of a private operator to maintain about 80 oreholes. Numerous domestic private operators have since shown their interest in this process and are ready to scale up this initiative.
At the request of the Government, WSP will help define the regulatory role of the Directorate of Maintenance, as well as provide an intervention framework for the private sector. The Government is currently preparing to engage a private operator to handle the maintenance of 621 rural water systems in the central area of Senegal.