Resources / Scaling up Rural Water Supply. A framework for achieving sustainable universal coverage through community management

Summary

Community management will be the predominant model for those striving to reach the goal of bringing sustainable water supplies to hundreds of millions of rural people in the next 10 years. This document sets out a framework for accelerating coverage in a way that will lead to sustainable water supply services. Two central planks of this framework are coverage of rural water services should be universal and the services should be sustainable. The paper includes the experiences of applying these principles in three countries and offers practical guidance to using the framework.