Ghana Water and Sanitation (WatSan) Project

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Ghana Water and Sanitation (WatSan) Project: The United States Government, represented by the U.S. Agency for International Development's Mission to Ghana (USAID/Ghana) is seeking applications from organizations for a cooperative agreement to fund a program entitled "Ghana Water and Sanitation (WatSan) Project."The WatSan Project is intended to achieve one Intermediate Result of the USAID/Ghana Health Program Strategic Objective 7: IR 4: Water supply and sanitation improved and other infectious diseases decreased and to contribute toward two Intermediate Results in the Education Sector Plan Strategic Objective 8: IR 1: Increased educational opportunities for girls in underserved areas; and IR 4: Increased community advocacy for and contribution to quality education. The Ghana WatSan Project will achieve these results by supporting improved access to safe and adequate water supply infrastructure for households, clinics and schools, increasing access to basic sanitation facilities for households, clinics and schools, and promoting complementary hygiene practices to maximize the health impact from this improved infrastructure. While expanding access to improved water supply and basic sanitation infrastructure are critical to the health and welfare of Ghanaians in the near term, maintenance and effective use of these are important for their long-term health and welfare. Therefore, an important component of the Ghana WatSan Project will be capacity-building support to those entities responsible for maintaining this infrastructure and its appropriate use. These entities will include community-level groups, clinic and school administrations, local governments, and utility operators. An estimated $14.2 million broken down by $13.2 million of core USAID funds and additional $1,000,000 in Coca-Cola leverage funds is anticipated in Life-of-Project over four years for the activities described in this solicitation, subject to availability of funding.