Dr Yambi, thanked the Government of Netherlands for the generous contribution, noting that diseases related to unsafe water and poor hygiene contribute to 20 per cent of deaths of children under five years. The support covers a five-year period, from January 2008 to December 2013, in selected arid, semi arid and flood prone districts.
This initiative will accelerate the drive towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals on water and sanitation and help reduce infant and child deaths due to water borne diseases and poor hygiene.
The total project cost is $70.6 million, comprising $41 million from the Government of The Netherlands, $7.6 million from UNICEF, $6.4 million from Ministry of Water and Irrigation, $3.6 million from Ministry of Education, $1 million from Ministry of Health and $10.9 million from communities.
The signing followed the conclusion of a Financial Arrangement in September 2006 between the Netherlands Minister for Development Cooperation and UNICEF HQ, covering several countries in Eastern Africa. A proposal for the acceleration of Water Supply and Sanitation towards reaching Kenya's Millennium Development Goals, had been submitted in 2005 by the Government of Kenya-UNICEF Programme of Co-operation, to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of The Netherlands.
Source: UNICEF
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