Differences in financial and operational capacities among governments: These are — quite unsurprisingly — the two major factors why progress on meeting water and sanitation-related development goals across sub-Saharan Africa is largely uneven.

 

This is according to a new African Development Bank report that compares and analyzes the performance of sub-Saharan African countries in the water and sanitation sector. The bank also compares how effectively countries used development aid they got for this sector, which received less than 0.1 percent of total aid disbursed to the region between 1995 and 2008.


Via Paola Rattu