📋 Tender Overview
Project ID: P173518
Region: Africa east
Commitment Amount: Us$ 150.00 million
Total Project Cost: Us$ 150.00 million
The objective of the project is to increase access to improved water supply and sanitation services in selected small towns and rura l areas of Mozambique.
The project will address the need for a paradigm shift in the approach to water supply and sanitation in rural areas and small towns.As countries strive to meet SDGs by 2030, recent evidence suggests that sustainably achieving universal access to basic water and sanitation services will require a renewed emphasis on how to ensure inclusive and affordable last mile service delivery at scale for those who need it the most, rather than focusing on discrete investments in infrastructure as a starting point. Therefore, the project will address the bottlenecks which prevent the scaling up of service and the rapid decline of infrastructure, dedicating part of the resources to drive needed reforms that will improve the sustainability of water supply and sanitation infrastructure. Priority will be given to a reform package with potential to scale up services to achieve SDG6; the project will seek to improve the enabling environment for private sector investment and develop more attractive contract models. To increase financial sustainability, the project will explore the best options to create packages of contiguous systems of different sizes to reduce operational costs and enable cross-subsidies between systems. To improve service delivery, the project will strengthen the role of the local authorities and support the consolidation of the regulatory role insmall towns and its extension to rural areas.25.The reform package will be accompanied by a package of infrastructure investments across the entire supply chain, which is critical for technical sustainability and quality of services to be provided.For selected locations of interventions, to prove the viability of proposed models and reforms, the project will invest in infrastructure, starting from securing water at the source to downstream distribution and household connections. Investments in water supply and sanitation infrastructure are critical to boost the sustainability of systems and services which are not viable due to non-existing or dysfunctional infrastructure. It will also contribute to strengthen the resilience of water infrastructure, and improve the management of water resources by investing in essential hydromet services that can improve early warning and reduce the negative impacts of climate change and variability on the systems.The project will contribute to the expansion of access to safely managed water and sanitation services in the provinces of Nampula and Zambezia; together, these two provinces have 39 percent of the country’s population but have the lowest access rates to water and sanitation25, along with the highest po
