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For more information, please contact: Ms Luana REALE: Head of Political, Press and Information Section; Delegation of the
European Union to Tanzania
Email: Luana.REALE@eeas.europa.eu
Direct Line: +255 22 2164503
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Iringa
Mr. Bright Warren - Communications Officer ActionAid Tanzania, Bright.warren@actionaid.org
Background Information
Through the Water Facility Initiative, EU in Tanzania has contributed more than 28 million Euros under to
support water and sanitation projects focusing on: upgrade of water and waste water systems,
improvement of small scale water systems, hygiene promotion, capacity building, institutional reform and
environment
The project "Integrated environmental sanitation concepts for poor, underserved and peri-urban areas of
Iringa Municipality ", which has been shortened to Usafi Iringa Iringa Sanitation Project has been
implemented since March 2014. Since then, the project managed to mobilize the respective communities,
to implement the innovative CLUES approach and to provide Sanitation as Business training modules to
small-scale entrepreneurs. The European Union awarded a grant of 1.098.883,- to the project.
The coverage of improved sanitation facilities in densely populated and peri-urban areas of Iringa Municipal
Council is still very poor. A recent assessment of the burden of diarrheal diseases in children under-5 and
the coverage of improved sanitation and safe drinking water in the project area disclosed a prevalence of
diarrhea of 15.8% of children under-5 in the last two weeks.
For more information, please contact: Ms Luana REALE: Head of Political, Press and Information Section; Delegation of the
European Union to Tanzania
Email: Luana.REALE@eeas.europa.eu
Direct Line: +255 22 2164503
Website: http://eeas.europa.eu/delegations/tanzania/index_en.htm
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EuropeanUnionTanzania
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EUinTZ
Iringa
Mr. Bright Warren - Communications Officer ActionAid Tanzania, Bright.warren@actionaid.org