Chile

The Cooperation Fund for Water and Sanitation (FCAS) has a programme in Chile called “Support for the reduction of the deficit in drinking water and sanitation coverage in the framework of the Millennium Development Goal targets for Chile”, with a grant of €6.8 million, initiated in 2014 with the Undersecretariat for Regional and Administrative Development (SUBDERE) of the Ministry of the Interior and Public Security.

As of December 2020, all the sewerage and sanitation projects had been completed, in the absence of some pending sanitary resolutions (an administrative procedure granted by the Regional Ministerial Secretariat of Health). The programme’s drinking water projects were also all completed or were nearing completion, with the exception of the works corresponding to the community of El Escorial (commune of Melipeuco) due to the administrative procedures associated with the rights to use the water catchment point. Subsequently, at the time of resuming the works, the COVID-19 pandemic began, which has forced the programme’s execution period to be extended to 2021.