small ruminants benefitted from vaccination campaigns for their livestock.  The Planned Agricultural Development Zones Project (ZAAP). These zones facilitate access to land for the most disadvantaged women and young people, based on a tripartite contract between landowners, the State and farmers. Twelve sites with a total area of 650 hectares were realized across the country. On these sites, women represent 80% of farmers.  "Tuberous root crops" Project (PRT). It started since 2009 for the benefit of women's cassava production groups in four pilot prefectures (Zio, Haho, Blitta and Assoli).  Access to drinking water 617. To improve the situation of rural women in terms of drinking water supply, several actions were undertaken. They concern especially the creation of:  the Ministry of Water, Sanitation and Village Water (MEAHV) in 2010, specifically responsible for handling the issue of drinking water supply and liquid sanitation problems. Through this ministry, government undertook a reform of the sector with the elaboration and adoption of a national water policy as well as a law on water code for the implementation of this policy, the formulation of a national plan for integrated management of water resources (PANGIRE) and a national action plan for the water and sanitation sector (PANSEA). Currently, the water sector is attached to the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock with the mission of achieving the same initial objectives;  drinking water supply works, with the main aim of getting as close as possible to the users' water points. Thus from 2007 to April 2012, two thousand five hundred and four (2,504) works were completed throughout the country, bringing the national service rate from 30 to 47. 33%. 618. With regard to access to safe drinking water, despite progress made, the results achieved were below targets set in the MDGs. Thus, the national drinking water supply rate increased from 42% in 2011 to about 48% in late 2014 as against a target of 66% expected by the end of 2015. Achievements were focused mostly in rural and semi-urban areas and especially in remote and poor localities. 619. It should be noted that the village water works intensified in 2010 and 2011 when 770 and 815 human powered pumps (PMH) were realized respectively as against 212 and 650 works carried out in 2008 and 2009 respectively. 172