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Urban Water Supply AssessmentSWALIM in collaboration with UNICEF carried out an assessment ofthe urban water supply in Somalia in 2006. The assessment was carriedout in the cities of Borama, Bossasso and Ceerigabo and focused ontechnical information such as availability of strategic water sources andtheir status, water service providers, water quality and water consumers.The socio-economic aspects focussed on consumers’ ability andwillingness to connect and pay for water services and sustainability ofwater institutions. The information collected in the assessment forms abaseline which can be used for future monitoring of the urban watersupply in Somalia towards meeting millennium development goal No. 7 target No.10 “tohalve by 2015 the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water”.UNICEF’s Water Interventions Mapping (2005-2009)The major objective of the mapping exercise was to evaluate progressmade in the water sector in terms of coverage of water services andincrease in number of beneficiaries served through UNICEF’s EC fundedprogramme. The report documents the results of interventions for theperiod 2005 to 2009 under the programme “Integrated Water ResourceManagement and Rural Water and Sanitation Programme in Somalia”.SWALIM carried out the mapping exercise at the request of UNICEF. Theinformation products from the exercise include maps showing annualprogress, regional maps for rural interventions and water supply systemmaps for major towns.10