Analysis of CWIS implementation (Burkina Faso)

The Citywide Inclusive Sanitation Initiative (CWIS) is an approach developed by the World Bank and its partners to promote equitable, safe and sustainable sanitation services provision across a city. This is made possible by using tools (CWIS toolbox, full list of CWIS indicators), that allows to check the level of existing sanitation services provision and/or sanitation enabling environment in order to take actions to achieve sanitation for all across a city. This study was conducted with a view to analyze the existing institutional environment in the Ministry in charge of sanitation in Burkina Faso, regarding the CWIS recommendations. To do so, an analysis of the functions of responsibility, accountability, resource planning and management according to the full list of CWIS indicators was carried out through a bibliographic review of the main documents related to sanitation work field in Burkina Faso and individual interviews with Ministry executives. The result is that in Burkina Faso, the functions of responsibility, accountability, resource planning and management are fairly well defined, but show some weaknesses in their application in comparison to the CWIS recommendations. To address this, a better monitoring, an update of legal documents and the establishment of key performance indicators to complete those already existing are proposed. In addition, in the list of qualitative indicators used, the answer to a higher-level indicator may be yes, while the answer to some sub indicators is no. In this case, the impact of the invalidation of specific sub-indicators on the validation of the higher-level indicator is not stated in the full list of CWIS indicators document.