UNICEF Representative to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Pierrette Vu Thi together with British Secretary for International Cooperation, Alexander Douglas signed a cooperation agreement for an estimated US$37 million dollars [in Kinshasa on 06 January 2009].The programme supports the national strategy of promoting improved access to water, sanitation and hygiene in rural and peri-urban communities throughout the country through the Healthy Village and Healthy School initiative. [...] The Ministy for Primary, Secondary and Professional Education and the Ministry of Public Health [...] are the primary implementing partners of WASH activities for UNICEF-DRC.
The US$ 37 million grant will be disbursed through UNICEF over a period of four years [and] ill benefit an estimated 9 million Congolese in 12,500 communities and over 750,000 primary school children.
Source: UNICEF / ReliefWeb, 06 Jan 2008
