National Rural Water and Sanitation Progam Awf Funding

The present intervention concerns the preparation of the National Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Program (NRWSSP). This program aims to improve the quality of life and productivity of Mozambican people by ensuring an equitable provision of an adequate quantity and quality of water to all competing user groups, and improved sanitation services for all, at acceptable cost and on a sustainable basis. The goal of the rural water and sanitation subs-ector is to provide equitable and sustainable access to water supply and sanitation to meet basic needs for improved health and poverty alleviation for Mozambique’s rural population and contribute towards achievement of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) for water and sanitation of 70% and 50%, respectively by 2015. This NRWSSP should create the conditions to improve the sustainability of the rural water supply and sanitation sub-sector through a better policy implementation that will enhance community ownership of facilities, as well as the impact that access to clean water and safe sanitation on the well-being ofthe rural population of Mozambique.