By July 2028, the INDAQUA Group will deploy 20 field specialists dedicated to improving water and sanitation services in the Namibe and Lunda Norte provinces, which cover a population of more than 1.5 million inhabitants, according to a statement.
According to the same source, the management, operation and maintenance contracts signed with the National Directorate of Water, and which have as beneficiaries the Public Water and Sanitation Companies (EPAS) of the respective provinces, have common objectives of improving the quality and access to services and consolidating the ongoing processes of corporatization.
The fieldwork, which also includes the training of 12 staff members, is already underway and, over three years, foresees a cross-cutting involvement across the entire management of the EPAS in those provinces.
In the area of strategic development, a business plan will be drawn up, and mechanisms for monitoring and management control will be implemented. Financial management and human resources procedures will also be implemented, with recruitment and training plans that will ensure the implementation of the sector’s best practices.
Defining actions to improve the efficiency of water networks and inventorying the available assets are part of the activities at the level of investment planning and asset management, along with dedicated plans for water safety and quality control, environmental management and emergency response.
“We see in these contracts a way to share management procedures that, with success, we apply to other INDAQUA Group companies, but adapting them to the reality of both provinces, including the regulatory requirements applied here. With the ambitious targets we have set, we want to ensure these companies have the right tools so that, in the long term, they can maintain autonomous and sustainable management, at the environmental and financial levels,” explains Inês Saavedra, General Manager of Vista Water.
The two contracts, with a combined value exceeding 10 million euros, are financed by the European Investment Bank (EIB) and are part of the second Institutional Development Project for the Water Sector implemented in Angola.
With this initiative, the INDAQUA Group, through its subsidiary Vista Water, consolidates its presence in Angolan territory, where it has been operating for more than 15 years. In Namibe this is indeed the second contract carried out, the first having been financed by the African Development Bank.
