After twelve months of activities, the various focal points of the Rasop Africa program, Reinforcing the Capacities of African Sanitation Operators on Non-sewer and Fecal Sludge Management Systems, met in Yaoundé to take stock of the activities carried out during the first year. This was in the context of an evaluation workshop scheduled for March 13-15, 2017 in the Cameroonian capital.

The aim of this workshop was to assess the action plan, the processes to identify the successes, weaknesses, lessons learned and opportunities to explore in order to strengthen the achievement of the program’s results. This meeting was also to enable the participants to draw up a work plan for the second year of the Rasop activities. Rasop is a three-year program implemented by AfWA and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It aims to promote the implementation of management strategies for on-site sanitation and fecal sludge in five African cities: Bamako (Mali), Yamoussoukro (Côte d'Ivoire), Yaoundé (Cameroon), Kampala (Uganda) and Lusaka (Zambia).

This is a capacity building approach based on a "Senior/Juniors" system. The senior utilities that have proven expertise in the field are Onas of Senegal and the Municipality of Etekuini in South Africa, two mentors responsible for strengthening the capacities of the “Juniors” through better sharing of successful experiences.