Provincial and Peri-Urban Water and Sanitation Project

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The Cambodia Provincial and Peri-Urban Water and Sanitation Project aims to assist the country in moving forward to fulfill the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in water supply and sanitation by 2015. The project design aims at building partnerships witht the private sector anduser groups in financing, operating, and maintaining constructed facilities, after designing specific instruments that ensure inclusion of low income communities residing in the service areas. In this context, IDA grants are proposed to be blended with the Credit. There are 8 project components. Component 1 finances the costs of civil works for improving the water supply systems in provincial towns and districts. Component 2 finances physical improvements in public toilets (in schools, markets, and hospitals), household toilets, on-site sanitation facilities, including soakaway pits for septic tank effluents and disposal of wastewater flows arising from water supplies, and hygiene education in pre-identified low income households. Component 3 finances project accountants, financial audits, and institutional capacity building. Component 4 supports the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy (MIME) in project management and supervision. Component 5 finances MIME's incremental costs in supervising and monitoring, such as expenditures for field visits. Component 6 finances civil works and the supply of goods for water supply expansion. Component 7 continues the pilot program of connecting low income communities with house connections. Component 8 finances a Civil Works Advisor to assist during constructions of the elevated tanks.