Cuba

The Cooperation Fund for Water and Sanitation has two lines of action: on the one hand, to promote drinking water services in intermediate cities in various provinces of the country and, on the other, to improve water quality in the Bay of Havana through the construction of wastewater treatment plants in several areas around the city. To this end, work is being carried out with the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources (INRH), the governing body for water and sanitation in Cuba, and with the Havana Bay State Working Group (GTE-BH), an autonomous body under the Ministry of Environment in Cuba.

The FCAS is currently running three programmes in the country, two of which are currently scheduled to end in December 2021.

In addition to the aforementioned programmes, the FCAS also supports the development of two other bilateral technical cooperation programmes that AECID has been implementing in Cuba since the end of 2019 with the same local partners. There is a combined budget of approximately one million euros for these programmes which, although not directly financed by the FCAS, have an impact on the water and sanitation sector and are complementary to the operations of the Water Fund and promote its sustainability.