{"id":197135,"date":"2025-04-30T23:36:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T21:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-world-bank-grant-to-enhance-accountability-and-efficiency-of-zambias-water-sector\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T23:36:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T21:36:38","slug":"zambia-world-bank-grant-to-enhance-accountability-and-efficiency-of-zambias-water-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-world-bank-grant-to-enhance-accountability-and-efficiency-of-zambias-water-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: World Bank Grant to Enhance Accountability and Efficiency of Zambia&#8217;s Water Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Lusaka \u2014 A new World Bank grant has been approved to enhance Zambia&#8217;s water supply and sanitation services, focusing on improving governance, operational efficiency, and expanding access to water and sanitation services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"70\">The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/projects.worldbank.org\/en\/projects-operations\/project-detail\/P509550\" rel=\"noopener\">Water Supply and Sanitation Services in Growth Centers Program<\/a>, financed by a $33 million grant from the International Development Association (IDA) will focus on selected water supply and sanitation commercial utilities including Kafubu, Luapula, North-western, and Western&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504300195.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lusaka \u2014 A new World Bank grant has been approved to enhance Zambia&#8217;s water supply and sanitation services, focusing on improving governance, operational efficiency, and expanding access to water and sanitation services. The Water Supply and Sanitation Services in Growth Centers Program, financed by a $33 million grant from the International Development Association (IDA) will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":197136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[13948,258,256,7089,14919,10152,13356,257,5991,254,6722,5093,4709,881,8982],"class_list":["post-197135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-accountability","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bank","tag-efficiency","tag-enhance","tag-grant","tag-news","tag-sector","tag-south-africa-today","tag-water","tag-world","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambias"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}