2024 update:

Capital budgeted to be invested: $1.3 million

Capital disbursed: $700,000

Expected impact:

·       Facilitate agreements with 8 local governments.

·       Serve 250,000 people across 1,000 communities with reliable and sustainable service;

·       Waterpoints exceed 95 percent functionality;

·       Ensure 85 percent of breakdowns are fixed within 24 hours; and

85 percent of customers report they are happy with water services. 

Commitment:

Provide a model of pro-poor, reliable, and professional rural water provision.

Engage government and non-government actors to align actions with the government’s policy for rural water services (pillar 1):

• Facilitate agreements between local governments and operators and mobilize communities to comply with fee payment against services
• Hold multi-stakeholder reviews and track stakeholder compliance with government’s policy. Provide 24/7 safe water to communities enrolled in operation agreements (pillars 2 and 3)
• Serve vulnerable people with reliable and sustainable service
• Ensure that breakdowns are fixed
• Customers report they are happy with their water service.

Supporting partners include: Whave Solutions