Water Supply and Sanitation in Rwanda : Turning Finance into Services for 2015 and Beyond
Rwanda has made good progress in extending water supply and sanitation coverage during the past few years, under clear political commitment to three complementary sets of targets: the economic development and poverty reduction strategy (2012), mill...
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| Format: | Other Infrastructure Study |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Nairobi
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/01/16373414/water-supply-sanitation-rwanda-turning-finance-services-2015-beyond http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12891 |
| Summary: | Rwanda has made good progress in
extending water supply and sanitation coverage during the
past few years, under clear political commitment to three
complementary sets of targets: the economic development and
poverty reduction strategy (2012), millennium development
goals (2015), and vision 2020. The report aims to help
countries assess their own service delivery pathways for
turning finance into water supply and sanitation services in
each of four subsectors: rural and urban water supply, and
rural and urban sanitation and hygiene. Rwanda is closing
the gap on its targets, but is unlikely to attain the
required coverage levels by 2015 without an increase in
financing. The coverage trend over the past 10 years for
rural water supply demonstrates the country's capacity
for developing new projects; while for sanitation the
enabling environment and capacity for service development
will need to be strengthened further in the medium term.
Households' capacity for sharing the costs of water
supply capital investments is limited, and the strategy
views their main contribution as being towards operations
and maintenance costs, through water fees and tariffs. The
rural water supply subsector has switched from a community
management model, to one of public-private partnership.
Nearly 30 percent of rural water schemes are already managed
by private operators and the economic and poverty reduction
strategy aims for 50 percent by 2012. This second African
Ministers' Council on Water (AMCOW) Country Status
Overview (CSO2) has been produced in collaboration with the
Government of Rwanda and other stakeholders. |
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