3.6 Water and Sanitation
WWF Lead: Drammeh CRC Lead: Tobey
Cooperating Partners: TBD No specific water and sanitation activities are planned in this workplan. However, a
concept paper was prepared and submitted to USAIDWest Africa for consideration of substantial add on funding for such activities which are beyond the current scope of the
Ba Nafaa project design and budget. The concept paper proposes additional funding of 445,321 over a three-year period to support needed water and sanitation activities linked
to the artisanal fishery and Community Fishery Centers CFCs. These centers are fish landing and public fish market sites where fish is taken from boats, washed and iced,
sold, and in some cases, smoked in adjacent processing facilities. Some catch is sold and transported to export processing plants. There are seven CFCs in seven fishing villages
located along the South Atlantic coast and 11 CFCs in the major inland fishing villages along both banks of the River Gambia. The Ministry of Fisheries and specific CFCs have
indicated that Water and Sanitation are development priorities for the artisanal fisheries sector and have expressed their interest in having the Ba Nafaa project provide assistance
in this area. The Ba Nafaa Project is not working in all of these landing sites, but mainly those along the Atlantic Coast and The Gambia River estuary involved in the sole,
sardinella and shrimp fisheries. In addition the project is working with oyster harvesters in nine communities where household sanitary facilities as well as sanitary facilities at
oyster processing and marketing points are also lacking. The objectives of these WatSan activities are to improve water supply and sanitation at
least seven public fisheries landingprocessing facilities. This will provide direct benefit to the thousands of fishermen, oyster harvesters, women fish venders, small scale fish
processers and other laborers that utilize these facilities daily. An added benefit is that clean water supply and sanitary facilities at these sites will also result in improved
sanitary handling of seafood supply and result in safer and healthier seafood product that enters both the local food chain as well as processing centers for export. The beneficiary
communities will enter into a management agreement with the project to include sustainability elements that will ensure that the facilities are properly maintained over a
long period of time. If this concept and additional funding request is approved, then a supplemental workplan
for this component will be developed and provided to USAIDWest Africa for approval.
3.7 Capacity Building, Communications, Outreach and Coordination
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