522. During the seven (7) years of implementation of the 3N Initiative, an amount of close to 2.000 billion CFA francs (300 billion per year), has been invested in the agricultural and rural development sector. Guarantee access to potable water and sanitation for all the population for the improvement of health and livelihoods. 523. The government adopted a fifteen (15) year Water, Hygiene and Sanitation Programme (PROSEHA 2016-2030) in November 2016. It falls in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the PROSEHA covers only the pillar 6 which consists of ensuring universal access to water and sanitation, a commitment to which our country has subscribed. 524. The Ministry of Water and Sanitation has developed a programme with the support of its technical and financial partners and this programme is the government’s reference document. Its objective is to ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all and to also contribute to the implementation of the national pastoralist water strategy. 525. The programme specifically consists of ensuring access to adequate quality water at an affordable cost as part of the integrated management and rational use of water resources and improvement of governance through national capacity development and citizenship participation in water management. 526. The PROSEHA has been structured into five (5) sub-programmes implemented by the Ministry of Water and funded by the Ministry of Finance to the tune of 3.289.000.000 CFA francs. 527. As a result of the implementation of this programme, the potable water supply situation in 2018 was as follows: - The additional rate of access by households to potable water services is 56.68, representing a geographical coverage of 71.14; - The breakdown rate has reduced significantly to 8.37. 528. Finally, the new achievements helped to improve the rate of access to potable water from 45.91% in 2017 to 46.31% in 2018 and 740,790 additional persons have been supplied with water bringing the number to 8,438,569 persons out of about 18,000,000 in the rural communities. It should be noted that the continued and overall increase of 1.26 percentage points would help to attain the target of 90% by 2020. 529. The hygiene and sanitation segment comprises of an operational strategy covering a period of five (5) years (2014-2018) which was adopted following the failure of different unsuccessful actions and the urgent need to regulate the sector. Its implementation has brought together a large number of stakeholders. Indeed, Hygiene and Sanitation are a priority for the authorities together with the thematic issue of access to potable water; its management is carried out through education on hygiene and punishment for any of the related offences is administered by using the Hygiene Code adopted in 1993. 530. As the need for the promotion of hygiene was felt and the Code was by far outdated, the Government drew some lessons from the limited impact of the poor consistency of all the actions and therefore developed an Operational Strategy for the Promotion of Hygiene and Basic Sanitation (SOPHAB) covering a period of five (5) years (2014-2018). The aim is to lay specific emphasis on the thematic issue as part of the overall PDES framework and to promote sustainable hygiene and basic sanitation in order to achieve the economic, social and cultural wellbeing of the population; and more precisely to promote positive change of behaviour and contribute to the emergence of a synergy of interventions by various stakeholders of the sector with a view to harmonizing actions, support access 103