Direct beneficiaries: i) Local-national-global WASH entities; ii) National governments and subnational institutions; iii) Provincial and municipal governments and community based-entities; iv) (Young) WASH practitioners, (Young) entrepreneurs, National WASH Platforms, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs); v) Private sector and business associations.

End beneficiaries: i) Poor and vulnerable people from rural and dispersed communities in targeted countries, ii) The global public. Other groups: Financiers (investors).

1. Authorities from local to global levels develop, promote and apply improved rural WASH policies: Institutional policy dialogue is mainstreamed, pushing for increased political leadership as well as adapted public policies and legislation on integrated rural WASH at local/national levels.

2. Local to national WASH institutions are strengthened and rural WASH actors improve their capacities, expertise and networks: Institutional set-up and management capacities of public actors are strengthened to provide sustainable rural WASH services, valuing human capital and fostering training, accountability, coordination and knowledge management through existing and new partnerships including the private sector. Locally adapted technical and social capacities of rural WASH experts (particularly women) are systematically strengthened to improve decentralized rural WASH services and management.

3. Implementers of rural WASH services develop, adopt and apply financial, technological and social innovations: Technological innovations are boosted and partnerships with the private sector are enhanced ensuring financial affordability and sustainability of rural WASH services.

Risultati principali attesi:  

Outcome 1:
Four countries improve their rural WASH
policies or implement reforms to enhance
the rural WASH enabling system.

Outcome 2:
* SIRWASH establishes alliances with
organizations from the public and private
sector, academia and civil society at regional,
national or local level to direct efforts and
resources to rural WASH (at least 16 partnerships).·
* Targeted capacity building improves the technical
and social assistance capacity of rural WASH
professionals with a strong focus on young people
and women (more than 300 professionals
and 30 entities).

Outcome 3:
Four innovative rural WASH solutions are
identified, piloted, and scaled. 40 innovative
youth-led start-ups are piloted and launched.
Two community markets are created to influence
new business models in rural WASH.

Risultati fasi precedenti:   SIRWASH builds on the experience of SDC’s programs in rural WASH in general and on its successful implementation of the SABA (Comprehensive Basic Sanitation Model) program in South America (Peru, Colombia) in particular. During the past 20 years, SABA has proven to be a successful model for sustainable management of WASH in rural areas, incorporating institutional, financial, technical, environmental and social components into national policies. The lessons learned reveal the importance of ownership of the main political stakeholders, a close and permanent policy dialogue with national and sub-national governments to increase public funding and to promote organizational changes at institutional levels, the strengthening of decentralized capacities, and the comprehensive intervention in the whole WASH project life cycle as well as the articulation with all relevant stakeholders.