The “Promoting Citywide Inclusive Sanitation through Climate Resilience in West Africa” is a project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and implemented by GGGI in Senegal, Burkina Faso, and Cote d’Ivoire. This investment is a second phase, after a pilot investment in Nepal and Senegal, which aimed to understand the potential of GGGI to support policy, planning, and investment development that includes sanitation in the climate resilience and green growth agenda.

The project seeks to mainstream sanitation into national policies, increase the flow of climate finance into the sanitation sector to address emissions and raise the profile of sanitation in the and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) with accurate estimation and a corresponding action plan to strengthen the case for more climate financing. In addition, the project also is exploring opportunities to integrate innovative climate-friendly technologies into the sanitation sector, attract green investments and facilitate knowledge sharing and capacity building for key stakeholders in the climate and sanitation sectors.

The Project aims to contribute to reducing GHG emissions from the sanitation sector and improving livelihoods by mainstreaming sanitation into national development planning, creating an enabling environment for sustainable infrastructure investments and operations including through improved access to climate financing, development of valorization technologies and regional knowledge sharing.

The project will result in the following key outputs:

1. Sanitation is included in the revised 2025 nationally determined contribution (NDC) in Senegal

2.Enhanced measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) system integrating the sanitation sector for GHG emissions in Burkina Faso to collect reliable data for the NDC update.

3. A regional capacity-building program is developed and implemented.
The development of sustainable and climate-resilient sanitation policy at the national or city level is supported in Cote d’Ivoire.

4. Innovative sanitation technologies are identified based on the local needs of the target countries, with a mechanism for uptake.

The Promoting Citywide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS) through Climate Resilience in West Africa Project builds on the success of a first-phase, focused on piloting an approach to embed sanitation in the climate dialogue in Nepal and Senegal. The first phase focused on policy, urban planning, and climate investment mobilization, producing highly valuable and concrete results.

The Project is financed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and is in line with GGGI’s commitment and “Global Call to action on ensuring access to climate-resilient sanitation services for 3.6 billion people by 2030, and global narrative for climate-resilient sanitation.

This second phase targets primarily high-level government officials in the implementation countries, with the aim of deepening their understanding on the sanitation-climate nexus both at the policy and technology levels.

The project aims for the following outcomes:

Outcome 1: Enhanced understanding of climate-resilience opportunities in the sanitation sector in the region by strengthening the platform for sharing and knowledge approach to further climate- sanitation nexus narrative
Outcome 2: Mainstreamed sanitation into national/local strategy, MRV system and updated NDCs.
Outcome 3: Disseminated innovative and climate-friendly sanitation technologies suitable for local markets in the target countries.