📋 Tender Overview
Contract partner: Water for People Uganda
Country: Uganda Contract type: Standardvertrag Project start: 01.09.2025 Funding amount: € 479.400,00 End: 31.08.2027
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Overall goal
The project aims at improving equitable and sustainable access to safely managed sanitation services in Kitgum municipality and Pabbo Town Council with a focus on households and schools to achieve SDG 6.
Expected results
• At least 2000 safe and sustainable, climate resilient household sanitation toilet stances constructed and/or improved.
• 6 ventilated improved pit latrines for girls serving 6 primary schools.
• 40 masons trained and offering latrine construction services.
• 200 active individual sanitation entrepreneurs.
• 2 active Sanitation Task forces deliberating on sanitation improvement.
• 2 updated Shit Flow Diagram and City Service Delivery Assessment reports.
• 2 operational Town Sanitation Plans.
Target group / Beneficiaries
The target group comprises 39.280 people in approximately 9.820 households in Kitgum Municipality (Kitgum District) and Pabbo Town Council (Amuru District), both in Northern Uganda,with 15,250 direct beneficiaries:.
• At least 12,000 people (3000 households) having access to safely managed sanitation services.
• At least 3,000 children attending school from six public schools.
• At least 10 pit-emptying entrepreneurs and 2 masons’ groups (20 members each) with 20% women representation actively offering sanitation services.
• At least 200 youth and women benefiting from participating in sanitation and hygiene businesses with 50% women representation.
Activities
1. Stakeholder mapping and analysis.
2. Supporting 6 schools in construction of toilets with menstrual hygiene management facilities for girls.
3. Recruiting masons for household toilet construction.
4. Recruiting and strengthening the businesses of pit emptying entrepreneurs, with priority for female entrepreneurs and youth.
6. Enhancing coordination and collaboration among sanitation actors in the towns.
7. Updating Shit Flow Diagram and City Service Delivery Assessment reports.
Context
The project is in alignment with Uganda’s commitments to the SDGs, particularly goal 6, focusing on universal access to water and sanitation services by 2030. Additionally, it is in line with the goal of the 3rd National Development Plan to increase households’ income and improve the quality of life of Ugandans. This will require innovative approaches to sanitation solutions and business models capable of providing long-term services for communities with particular focus on climate-resilient technologies and approaches.
