African cooperation promotes safe access to water and sanitation

22 March 2022

The City of Cape Town’s Water and Sanitation Directorate, in partnership with Nuffic on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the framework of the Orange Knowledge Programme, the University of the Western Cape, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) and World Waternet Amsterdam, signed a Memorandum of Understanding to enter into a training partnership programme that looks at addressing water and sanitation challenges in informal settlements during the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond.

The focus of this partnership is implementing the first of the City’s Water Strategy’s five commitments which includes ‘Safe access to water and sanitation’ and addresses the current Covid-19 pandemic and beyond.

‘We are proud and excited to support the City of Cape Town‘s Water Strategy with the emphasis on social inclusion and to contribute to the process of Co-creating solutions with residents of informal settlements to take ownership of the facilities provided by the City,’ said Dr Henk Van Den Heuvel, Director: Center for International Cooperation, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

The Nuffic grant funding recipient was the Centre for International Cooperation from VU Amsterdam. Funding to the value of over EUR 196 000.00 (over R3,6 million) was provided in the form of non-monetary technical assistance to provide tailor-made training interventions to various directorates within the City of Cape Town.