This is a question our team has been working on since November 2025. In Mauritania, as in several West African countries, drinking water and sanitation tariffs have not been revised for many years. At the same time, however, networks are expanding, ambitious investment programmes are being launched and operators are struggling to improve their performance. […]
Phoenix, alongside EDE International, has begun an expert mission in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, as part of the master plan for liquid sanitation in this sprawling metropolis. With over 12 million inhabitants, Kinshasa faces major challenges in terms of wastewater management, as well as stormwater and solid waste management. Recurring floods, lack of infrastructure, […]
Phoenix is excited to announce the launch of a strategic project aimed at analyzing and defining subsidy mechanisms for water and sanitation services in Angola. This project, funded by the World Bank and in partnership with the Angolan government, is part of the Second Water Sector Institutional Development Project (PDISA-II), aimed at restructuring and improving […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The energy crisis that the world is facing in 2022 continues to push further Public and Private players into reexamining their usual practices. The financial structuring of Public Private Partnerships (PPP) in the sanitation sector is no exception. Commissioned to assist the Tunisian Government in its studies for the development of a wastewater treatment plant […]
Abidjan, like many African cities, suffers from a lack of access to sanitation. Yopougon is the most populous municipality of the ten of the Ivorian economic capital (over 1 million inhabitants) and also one of the most affected. Currently, all the wastewater collected is discharged, without treatment, into the Ebrié lagoon. Sanitation works in the central sector of Yopougon are a priority of the city’s Sanitation and Drainage Master Plan. They include the rehabilitation and extension of the network, the transfer of effluents, the construction of the 1st phase of the Vridi Gada treatment plant as well as a sea outfall. AFD, with C2D funding, plans to support the Ministry of Sanitation in carrying out these works, but first wishes to know the needs for connections to the sanitation network and the part of the subsidy that could be offered to households applying for these connections. Phœnix and SEURECA, in partnership with OpinionWay, are responsible for quantifying the connection needs, defining the technical and administrative procedures for their implementation, and establishing the method of financing the planned connections, taking into account the capacity and willingness to pay residents. Also, a “gender” action plan takes into account the issues related to gender equality throughout the project implementation
Brazil has made extensive use of PPP arrangements for the development of its infrastructure and is interested in exchanging international experience to contribute to its analysis, in particular on options for structuring contracts and conducting calls for tenders. AFD has entrusted Expertise France with supporting Brazilian municipalities in the definition, preparation, and procurement of PPPs in their priority sectors of competence. Two pilot projects were selected: sanitation of the city of Volta Redonda (260,000 inhabitants, State of Rio de Janeiro) and public lighting of the city of Toledo (120,000 inhabitants, State of Parana). The consultancy firms in charge of the feasibility studies and the tendering process for the recruitment of operators have been selected. Phœnix provides its expertise in the field of PPPs and coordinates the financial, legal and technical expertise that assists the contracting authority (the two Municipalities and the Caixa Econômica Federal, the national public bank) throughout the process up to the financial closing of the two operations. Phœnix is involved in each of the key stages of these processes, which are expected to last an estimated 2 years.