In less than five years, over 4.7 million people, of whom over 2.3 million are female, have gained access to improved water supplies through Tanzania’s Sustainable Rural Water and Sanitation Program. Further, some 6.6 million people, half of them women and girls, have gained access to improved sanitation facilities; 594 villages have achieved, and sustained, community-wide sanitation status; and 1,904 healthcare facilities and 1,095 primary schools now have access to improved sanitation and handwashing facilities.
Up to 10 million Tanzanian citizens will gain access to improved water supply and nine million to better sanitation facilities through additional financing approved today by the World Bank.
More than three million Tanzanians in rural areas will be connected to safe water supply, while another four million people will gain access to improved sanitation through an IDA credit of $350 million approved today by the World Bank.
The program will help increase access to rural water supply and sanitation services in participating districts and strengthen the capacity of select sector institutions to sustain service delivery.