Yet the government allocates only 2p in every pound of our bilateral aid budget to water, sanitation and hygiene.

The bilateral aid package consists equally of grant assistance and highly concessional funding.

This indicates that there has been off-budget financing of about 26% of total bilateral aid in the past five years.

Within the category of social infrastructure, education absorbed 6.7% of the bilateral aid in 1990, water supply and sanitation made up 3.4%, and only 2% went for health.