HN Water and Sanitation Sector Modernization Project

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The objective of the Water and Sanitation Sector Modernization Project is to improve the sustainability, efficiency and reliability of Honduras's water supply and sanitation (WSS) services in the participating municipalities through implementing the Strategic Plan to Modernize the WSS Sector (PEMAPS). The specific objectives are to: 1) Establish and strengthen municipal service providers and support good governance in WSS services provision through increasing transparency and accountability; 2) Reinforce the national sector actors to fulfill their new roles a necessity for successful decentralization of the services; and 3) Reduce non-revenue water in selected areas of Tegucigalpa to provide immediate impact on the service quality. There are 4 components to the project: a) this component will finance a combination of technical assistance (TA), efficiency improvements and larger-scale investments in order to support the decentralization and de-concentration of water and sanitation services to autonomous, municipal service providers; b) this component, Tegucigalpa Non Revenue Water Reduction, will finance the design and implementation of a performance-based non-revenue water reduction contract in Tegucigalpa; c) this component, Institutional strengthening of national and regional sector institutions, will finance the institutional strengthening of and TA to national institutions of the water and sanitation sector, as well as severance payments for entrenched workers of the national water utility; and d) this component, Project Management, will finance the cost of salary, travel and general operating costs of the project implementation agency, as well as monitoring and evaluation activities.