One WASH—Consolidated Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene Account Project (One WASH—CWA)

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The development objective of the Consolidated Water Supply, Sanitation (WSS), and Hygiene Account Project for Ethiopia is to increase access to safe WSS, and hygiene services and strengthen capacity for water resources management and service delivery. The project comprises of five components. The first component, rural WSS, and hygiene will help increase access to safe and reliable WSS services and promote hygienic practices in selected rural woredas that have not previously benefited from the Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene Project (WASHP) interventions or that require expansion and improvement of services in new communities to achieve universal access. It consists of following sub-components: (i) increasing rural access to WSS services; and (ii) enhancing service delivery management capacity. The second component, urban WSS, and hygiene will contribute to increasing access to WSS services and to strengthening the capacity of town water boards and utilities to effectively manage water resources and WSS service delivery in selected small- and medium-sized towns. The third component, institutional WSS, and hygiene will improve integrated access to advanced WASH facilities in schools and health centers and is intended to complement interventions to improve health impacts, decrease school dropout rates, and increase resilience of WSS services to floods and droughts and reduce the contamination of water bodies. The fourth component, climate resilient WASH will contribute to strengthening the management of water resources for service delivery and to increasing access to WASH services in selected flood- and drought-prone areas. It consists of following sub-components: (i) water resource monitoring and planning; (ii) climate-adaptive service delivery; and (iii) contingency emergency response component (CERC). The fifth component, institutional strengthening and project management consists of following sub-components: (i) operationalization of a sector management information system (MIS); and (ii) institutional strengthening and project management.