Cameroon: 1.5 Million Toilets to Improve Sanitation

UNICEF, October 10, in Yaounde, launched a project to construct some 1.5 million toilets throughout the country [...] in three years at the tune of FCFA 3.4 billion per year. According to the programme, households and public establishments would have to do the digging of the toilets after which a subvention would be given to fund the decking of the toilet.

In the area of water, FCFA 25.5 billion per year would be used in the construction of 22.000 new taps, and the rehabilitation of 6000 existing ones.

[In Cameroon] only 15 percent of the rural population having access to improved toilets.

[...] UNICEF would equally identify, conceive and develop an information communication and education tool geared towards behavioural change, and knowledge acquisition in practical hygiene and support water and sanitation projects in schools and health centres.

Source: Leocadia Bongben, The Post (Buea) / allAfrica.com, 17 Oct 2008