CDB provides EUR 14.4 million loan for Phase 1 of Hann’s Bay Sanitation Project

CDB provides EUR 14.4 million loan for Phase 1 of Hann’s Bay Sanitation Project In January 2018, China Development Bank (CDB) and Agence Française de Développement (AFD) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to strengthen the cooperation between the two Chinese and French development finance institutions.

On November 8, 2019, Mr. Zhao Huan, Chairman of China Development Bank (CDB), and Mr.

Remy Rioux, CEO of Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and International Development Finance Club (IDFC) Chairperson, signed a letter of intent for the co-financing of the Hann’s Bay Sanitation Project located in Dakar for a total amount of approximately EUR 30 million.

The proposed co-financing would be for a supplement to additional network extension and the wastewater collection of Dakar’s Autonomous Port.

The co-financing agreement was to be undertaken in the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the two countries in January 2018.

The total expected cost of the project's first phase was EUR 149.5 million, with grant and loan contributions from the French Development Agency (AFD), Invest International, the European Union, and the Government of Senegal.

In November 2022, CDB and the Government of Senegal signed an EUR 14.4 million CDB loan agreement for Phase 1 of Hann’s Bay Sanitation Project.

Hann Bay is located in the northeast of Dakar.

Since the city's growth in 1960, multiple industries have dumped their waste into the canal, resulting in severe pollution. The purpose of the project is to reduce pollution in Hann’s Bay in the capital city of Dakar. Hann’s Bay is surrounded by chemical companies, an abattoir and an oil refinery.

It has endured many years of discharge of industrial effluents and domestic waste.

The project will involve the collection and discharge of wastewater into a treatment network, including a 15 km long conduit that will carry the waste to a treatment plant.

The treatment plant will provide the first phase of filtration, which consists of trapping and removing solid matter and sand. The second phase of the project will consist of bacteriological treatment. The treated water will then be released into the ocean.

As part of the Government Senegal’s reforms to the sector, it will introduce the ‘polluter-pays’ principle via a sanitation charge for companies connected to the network.

Manufacturers will be expected to pre-treat their waste, and billing will be based on the quantity of pollutants and the volume of water discharged. ​After the project is completed, it will benefit 500,000 local residents.

The project is planned to take three years, during which time the bay will be completely cleared of pollution and up-to-date sanitation infrastructure will be put in place. It will connect 120 different sanitation manufacturers and create jobs and wealth. On September 25, 2020, the first phase of the Dakar Hann Bay Wastewater Treatment Project was officially launched.

Xiao Han, the ambassador to Senegal, Senegal Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation Thiam, office director Nicolas, the head of the Hann district, and the ambassadors from the European Union, France, the Netherlands and Belgium to Senegal attended the meeting.