Waste management in the Antananarivo agglomeration, with its 39 municipalities and 2.5 million inhabitants, faces major technical, regulatory, institutional and financial challenges, worsen by rapid urbanisation. Poor waste management is leading to a proliferation of illegal dumps, affecting drainage infrastructure and exacerbating health and flooding risks. The lack of funding is an obstacle to the […]
Rwanda is committed to achieving ambitious sanitation targets, including 100% coverage of its territory by 2024. The capital Kigali currently has no collective sanitation system, and the two main domestic sanitation methods used are septic tanks and pit latrines. Artelia, with the support of Phœnix, is currently carrying out a feasibility study to design a […]
Political, social and security unrest in the Central African Republic has led to a significant delay in the development of basic services, including the public drinking water service. For several decades, the low level of economic development, the regulatory and bureaucratic framework, the lack of financial resources and the delay in investment in infrastructure have […]
The Greater Gabes region constitutes a population basin of approximately 195,000 inhabitants, spread over a wide coastal strip, with a large industrial area to the North and to the South, a planned major tourist area. The sanitation master plan, validated in 2017, highlighted the need to build a new wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) for the […]
In Guinea-Bissau, only one-third of the population has access to electricity (58% in Bissau, the capital). Access is almost non-existent in rural areas, where more than half the population lives. Yet the country has considerable potential in terms of renewable energy resources: solar, hydroelectricity and biomass. In early 2021, the government approved a “Least Cost […]
A catch-phrase currently in every posts on PPPs on social networks ! More than just for words, Phoenix has been mobilized in a Technical Assistance (TA) financed by the French Development Agency (AFD) to work with the PPP Center of the Philippines towards implementing concrete actions. The PPP Center has identified more than 10 projects […]
On 19 January 2023, the Phoenix/Axelcium consortium travelled to Abidjan to present the results of the firm’s work on the financial equilibrium of the sector to representatives of the Ivorian parties involved in the drinking water sector (Ministry of Water and Sanitation, ONEP, Instance Générale des PPP, Primature). This mission, conducted by the group between […]
The gender dimension is particularly relevant in the water and sanitation sector. It is mostly women and girls who are responsible for the tasks related to water collection, transport, storage and use. They are also responsible for most of the tasks related to the maintenance of sanitation facilities and hygiene education. But if their role […]
In 2019, Guinea adopted a new strategy for the professionalization of waste management around on four main areas: strengthening the legal and institutional environment; modernizing infrastructure and equipment and promoting PPPs; building the capacity of stakeholders; institutionalizing appropriate financing and monitoring mechanisms. Despite a significant improvement in solid waste management in Conakry in recent years, […]
The “Desert-to-Power” initiative, supported by the African Development Bank (AfDB), aims to harvest the solar potential of 11 Sahelian countries with an initial focus on the G5 Sahel countries (Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger). Five priority actions are identified: Development of grid-connected solar generation capacity, Reinforcement and extension of distribution and transport networks, Deployment […]