Transforming The Rural WASH Sub-Sector for Sustainably: CWSA Develops New Community Water Services Policy as Part of it’s Reform Process
(BY MRS. PAULINE ESTELLA PEBLA TAMBRO – CHIEF PUBLIC RELATIONS MANAGER, CWSA)
BACKGROUND
The Community water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA), initiated policy reforms in the Rural Water and Sanitation Sub-sector in 2017, with the aim of changing the management of water supply services from the existing Community Management to professionalized management model. The change in policy was triggered by recommendations gathered from various Stakeholders engagements and available research findings in the sector which pointed to the fact that the Community Management Model has not been efficient enough to ensure sustainable management of water supply infrastructure which government and its development partners have committed huge investments into providing. The initial engagements based on a concept paper led to the development of a Framework for the Reform which was also presented to sector stakeholders for validation at the national and regional levels.
