Kenya is to receive a total of 60,51 million US dollar in grants and loans from the African Development Fund (ADF) for projects aimed at strengthening rural health facilities and improving water-supply and sanitation infrastructure in Rift Valley Province.
The ADF on Wednesday approved a loan of 25,19 million, and a grant of 8,80 million dollar to finance the Rural Health Project III in the East African country. The project is intended to support the governments efforts to strengthen district health systems and reinforce community-based disease prevention and control services, reports IRIN.
The project would be implemented in seven districts in three provinces, whose total population constituted 9,5 percent of the countrys 31 million people, the ADF said.
The water and sanitation improvement project in the Rift Valley would receive a grant of 19,12 million and a loan of 7,4 million dollar. It is intended to ensure equitable provision of adequate quantity and quality of water and sanitation services to all the user groups at affordable cost on a sustainable basis in Nakuru, Kenyas fourth-largest town, and in urban, semi-urban and rural communities.
In Nakuru region, water supply is affected by insufficient and deteriorating infrastructure and weak institutional capacity to operate and maintain the facilities, as well as low rate of recovery of water bills.
Kilde: FN-bureauet IRINnews
