Nicaragua

This year, in 2020, the implementation period of the bilateral grant in Chontales came to an end, with all the resources disbursed and the objectives achieved. This grant served to improve access to drinking water in the cities of Acoyapa, Santo Tomás and Bluefields, and sanitation in the first two, installing a total of 9,350 new drinking water connections and 4,600 sanitation connections. In addition, the grant enabled capacity building for the operation and maintenance of the newly installed systems. The sanitation systems of nine public schools in Acoyapa and Santo Tomás have also been improved, and a plan to connect 1,100 vulnerable families in both cities to the sanitary sewerage system has been financed.

Meanwhile, through the other FCAS bilateral grant NIC-013-B, work continued on the construction of the Masaya Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP), which should be completed in 2021 for entry into operation of the entire new sanitary sewerage and sanitation system of this city.

Through the Delegated Cooperation Agreement with the EU, the LAIF grant is also progressing towards completion of all its components. In the course of 2021, only the project for the extension of sewerage networks in the city of Bilwi, which is the result of the savings produced through managing the grant and which allows for the installation of 2,892 new connections in addition to those installed in the original project already completed, amounting to a total of 6,451 connections, remains to be completed.