COWASH Project Secures 1.3b Br

Jan 25 , 2020


The Clean Water & Health Care (COWASH) project, which is being implemented in five regional states, secured 1.3 billion Br in financing. The governments of Ethiopia and Finland have agreed to cover 700 million and 644 million Br of the finances, respectively. The financial and technical bilateral relations to provide clean water and health care between Ethiopia and Finland started 25 years ago. And the project is being implemented in 76 weredasacross five regional states. The current agreement is to provide clean water and health care for residents in Oromia, Amhara, Tigray, Southern Nations, Nationalities, & Peoples', and Benshangul Gumuz regional states starting from next year.


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