History

In 1988, at the end of the International Water Decade, faced with an increasingly worrying problem of access to water and sanitation due to population growth and insufficient capacity funding and the lack of appropriate technologies in the sector, CREPA was set up with headquarters in Burkina Faso. Its main mission at the time was to provide answers to technological problems.

A mission that he carried out between 1988 and 1992 through the development of autonomous sanitation technologies, community waste management and support for small operators. Between 1993 and 1996, the organization marked a shift with the adoption of a holistic approach integrating in particular the participation of the populations, the approaches to promoting HAEP and the strengthening of the capacities of the actors. The appropriation of CREPA programs by the States, which took place in 1997, gave the organizationits fundamentally African dimension with the establishment of a public interest institution in place of the associative organization known until then. States then become more involved in steering the organization through the Council of Ministers, CREPA intervenes more in national programs and supports States in the formulation of policies and strategies.