Improving access to drinking water in slums and squats in Ile-de-France
Making available mobile water purification systems suitable for given contexts, requiring no servicing work.
Definition: A slum/squat is a terrain, or a squalid building generally made of waste materials, with no basic services (water, electricity, waste management), occupied by families in a precarious situation.
Location of the mission
France, Ile-de-France region
Date of the project
April 2021 – September 2021
Beneficiaries
Newly arrived (refugees, migrants) in a precarious situation and with inadequate housing
Partner
ACINA
Context and issues
In mainland France, over 16,000 people including 5,000 minors, mainly Europeans coming from Romania and Bulgaria, live in slums. The Ile-de-France alone has 8,000 people living in improvised camps. Most of them have no access to drinking water*.
Sponsored by ACINA, this project is part of the implementation of the regional strategy for slum clearance. Its goal is to give access to drinking water for these people, meeting the minimum requirements which would allow them to focus on social-professional assistance and active inclusion projects (individual support towards self-sufficiency).
* Figures from the Délégation interministérielle à l’hébergement et à l’accès au logement (Dihal: interministerial delegation for housing and access to housing)
General goals
Allowing populations in a precarious situation with inadequate housing in France to gain access to drinking water, a fundamental right identified as such by the UN in 2010
Allowing the beneficiaries to focus on their inclusion into society (access to rights, school attendance, training and employment; access to housing, etc.)
Improving health safety for these families, a measure all the more indispensable during a pandemics
Project history
The intervention
InovaYa is responsible for making available to ACINA, mobile water purification systems solving two issues: intervene in situations of sanitary emergency and providing long-term work for the sustainable inclusion of the inhabitants.
Year 2020
Land survey
Listing the needs, co-drafting the project, technical feasibility studies, looking for financial support
april 2021
Mediation
- On-site mediation on Water and Hygiene
- Workshops for defining water management and distribution with the inhabitants
June 2021
Installations
September 2021
Capitalisation and duplicability
Assessment of use and appropriation, corrective actions if need be.
About the association
ACINA Association
ACINA is a public interest association subject to the French law 1901, founded in January 2014. It is devoted to the social and professional inclusion of the newly arrived who find themselves in great precariousness in France. Its actions are structured around two directions: social assistance to these persons by providing them with lasting access to the common rights (social security, school attendance, access to housing, etc.) and their professional insertion (access to training and employment).
about the association
ACINA Association
ACINA is a public interest association subject to the French law 1901, founded in January 2014. It is devoted to the social and professional inclusion of the newly arrived who find themselves in great precariousness in France. Its actions are structured around two directions: social assistance to these persons by providing them with lasting access to the common rights (social security, school attendance, access to housing, etc.) and their professional insertion (access to training and employment).
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