Rwanda - National Rural Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Program (Phase II)

Unlike the agricultural, education and health sectors, there was not as yet a sector budget support (SWAP) as financing instrument for the water and sanitation sector in Rwanda. However, the Government has commissioned a World Bank-funded study to explore ways and means of gaining access to a sector SWAP. Once the study is completed, the findings will be discussed by the Government and all the technical and financial partners for ultimate validation and definition of their conditions of implementation. Consequently, the financing mechanism jointly adopted could be applied for the next financing phases of the national programme (PNEAR). This present sub-programme will use the mechanisms already existing in the country that were also used for PNEAR Phase I.