Publication: Burkina Faso - Public Expenditures Review : Rural Water and Sanitation Sector
Date
2008-03
ISSN
Published
2008-03
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
The review aims at supporting efforts of
the government in water and sanitation sector in rural and
semi-urban areas. It carries out analysis of sector
expenditures evolution during the period 2001-2006 and
proposes recommendations likely to help better cope with the
current and future challenges. The present review covers
only public expenditures of the Ministry of Agriculture,
Hydraulics, and Halieutics Resources (MAHRH) to the profit
of Rural Water and Sanitation Supply (RWSS). Expenditures of
other ministries (education, and health), as well as
projects of local development, from Non-Governmental
Organization (NGO), and private individuals, for whom data
are not available, are excluded. The review of public
expenditure in RWSS shows that RWSS sector has experienced
dramatic development and that performance in terms of
creation of water points is relatively satisfactory during
the 2001-2006 periods in Burkina Faso. The annual volume of
new water points is about 1.950 points. Facilities realized
during this period theoretically made it possible to supply
more than three million Burkinabe and the rate of access of
populations to drinking water was 60 percent in 2006,
according to official sources. RWSS analysis highlights
several challenges. These challenges concern primarily: the
availability of coherent data, obstacles slowing down the
capacity of absorption and negatively affecting efficiency
of expenditures, problems related to the sustainability of
investments and equipments, huge gap between ambitions and
reality on the ground with regard to devolution,
decentralization and harmonization of interventions of main
technical and financial partners which deserves to be reinforced.
Citation
“World Bank. 2008. Burkina Faso - Public Expenditures Review : Rural Water and Sanitation Sector. © Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/8254c31f-3f87-539f-82ef-a92783b40bc2 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”