Governance
This case study highlights how the Building Blocks Assessment (BBA), conducted annually between 2022 and 2024, has become a cornerstone tool for strengthening Rwanda’s water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector, providing evidence-based insights that informed national policies, sector coordination, and investment strategies while guiding targeted interventions to address the sector’s weakest areas.
This case study reviews the drivers of reform, the operationalization of the new model, and the role of the Isoko y’Ubuzima Project in shaping implementation. It highlights lessons for policy and practice on professionalizing rural water services, ensuring sustainability, and accelerating progress toward universal access.
This technical note outlines how the Isoko y’Ubuzima project in Rwanda successfully reduced non‑revenue water through district metered areas, improved metering and data systems, operator training, and community engagement, while highlighting results, challenges, and lessons for national scale‑up.
Author: Marie Nicaise Ugabinema, CARE This product is a knowledge product of the Isoko y’Ubuzima (Source of Life in Kinyarwanda), a WASH initiative funded by the U.S. Government and implemented by a consortium led by Water For People and including IRC, VEI, CARE, and AEE from 2021 to 2026. This document can be used in…
FLOW stands for Financing Lifecycle-cost of Water-supply Systems This report presents a comprehensive lifecycle‑cost financing strategy designed to help Assam shift from infrastructure expansion to long‑term, reliable rural water service delivery. Drawing on field research, costing analysis, and district‑level validation, it outlines the policies, institutions, and investments needed to ensure sustainable, inclusive, and climate‑resilient water…
International development actors are making a mad dash to incorporate climate change issues into their programming. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to fund or justify any development intervention in the Global South that does not in some way include climate-responsive action, be it mitigation or adaptation.
The overall goal for K-WASHIP is to develop a more accurate and localised strategic WASH investment plan for Karamoja Sub- Region to guide achieving universal access to safe water by 2030 as stipulated in the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2030 Agenda and Uganda’s Vision 2040. K-WASHIP aims at bridging the WASH service delivery gap through…
Isoko y’Ubuzima is a WASH USAID-funded project implemented by Water For People in Rwanda. This is a summary of the achievements after year 1 of activities implementation.
Desarrollo de una reflexión entorno a la experiencia de la implementación del piloto modelos de intervención para las zonas rurales dispersas. En conjunto con entes del gobierno y otras ONG se buscó el desarrollo de lineamientos de política que permitieran a los municipios alcanzar la Cobertura Total en agua y saneamiento con un enfoque de…
Research paper that looks at the water supply kiosks in Blantyre and the debate regarding the tariffs charged for their use. The paper argues that the running costs cannot be born solely by the end user or the Water User Associations (WUA), and that there is a need for reforms to reduce kiosk tariffs as…