Boosting Sustainable Innovative Tender

The project will contribute to closing the persisting gaps in coverage and quality of socially acceptable affordable and sustainable rural WASH services. Past bilateral experiences from successful Swiss projects particularly SDCs engagement in Latin America will be elevated to the global level and combined with innovative financing advocacy institutional development and capacity building in countries in Latin America Caribbean and potentially Africa and Central Asia.CountryregionTopicPeriodBudgetGlobalWaterWater supplyWater sanitationWater sector policy01.06.2019 - 31.12.2030CHF 9421500 The project in briefDirectoratefederal office responsibleSDCCredit areaDevelopment cooperationProject partnersContract partnerInternational or foreign NGOOther international or foreign NGO NorthSummaryDespite the efforts and achievements made to increase the coverage of drinking water and sanitation services in developing countries there is still a significant gap that reveals inequalities between urban and rural areas. SDC with its significant experience and credibility in rural water and sanitation can contribute to tackling these challenges with the new SIRWAS initiative by integrating lessons and experiences from its past interventions in particular the integrative approach to basic water and sanitation which has become a reference in Peru and Colombia and in the wider Latin America and the Caribbean region for sustainable and decentralized delivery of water and sanitation services. The institutional strengthening knowledge management and technical administrative and financial capacity building of teams in charge of managing services in local communities and municipalities combined with a specific emphasis on gender issues and young people are key assets of this comprehensive approach to ensure sustainable and high quality services. SIRWAS will feed the successful experiences of past SDC interventions with rural WASH into the global and regional dialogue foster south-south exchange and global scaling-up. Vice-versa global experience will be brought into application in SDC country programmes. Applying this elevator approach the SIRWAS will contribute to the Sustainable Development Goal 6 as well as to the objectives of the Global Program Water. The intervention will use the modus-operandi of the Global Programmes with its three-pronged approach of policy influencing innovation and knowledge management with a strong focus on leveraging partnerships. As the results of the water evaluation confirmed SDC is well positioned at the global level to be at the forefront of innovative and sustainable solutions for rural water and sanitation services through existing partnerships with key actors. The outstanding experiences gained in Latin America Peru Colombia will position Switzerland as a credible partner that can complement and nourish its global advocacy and foster South-South exchange by sharing