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Project Overview

The impact of the Project will be improved health and quality of life for rural people in line with the Millennium Development Goals for safe water supply and sanitation. The outcome of the Project will be sustained access to safe water and sanitation and better hygiene. To accomplish this outcome, the Project has four components:

Component 1 aims to mobilize communities and develop skills through:

• Strengthening community capabilities to plan, develop, cofinance, operate, and maintain community-based RWSS facilities
• Providing communities with tools to improve their knowledge of hygiene and sanitation
• Helping women and the poorest to develop their livelihoods through information on water and sanitation-related activities

Component 2 aims to improve water supply through:

• Financing the rehabilitation or construction of water supply systems in about 1,760 villages
• Strengthening provincial capacity to test water, including groundwater testing in difficult areas, and support the introduction of new technologies

Component 3 aims to improve sanitation through:

• Financing the rehabilitation or construction of private and public sanitation systems and raising awareness of water use and hygiene issues nationally
• Supporting the development of sanitation facilities by providing different levels of subsidy for latrine construction, depending on the type and cost of the latrine

Component 4 aims to build capacity and support institutions through:

• Improving the capacity of the executing agency, its line agencies, and commune councils to facilitate, regulate, plan, supervise, and monitor the delivery of quality water and sanitation services in target villages
• Strengthening and supporting private sector participation
• Developing a comprehensive rural water supply and sanitation database
• Supporting the development of the policy and institutional framework of the sector
• Facilitating the Government's cooperation with development partners

The Project will provide about 1 million people with improved safe drinking water facilities, of whom about 720,000 will also benefit from improved sanitation facilities.

The benefits and impacts of the Project are:

• Human and social, e.g., poverty reduction, gender empowerment
• Institutional, e.g., community participation, increased Government capacity and coordination
• Environmental, e.g., reduced quantities of sewage and waste in rivers
• Economic and financial