Rural Water Supply & Sanitation and Budget Support — Guidelines for Task Teams

Welcome to the Rural Water Supply & Sanitation and Budget Support — Guidelines for Task Teams. This site is designed to assist development practitioners using budget support/development policy lending to achieve rural water supply and sanitation (WSS) targets in national Poverty Reduction Strategies and Millennium Development Goals.

Building Blocks of Budget Support
	Start here: developing a national sector plan is the first stage of moving to budget support.
	Coordination between government and its development partners is essential for the delivery of a coherent national program.
	Support to rural WSS needs to be linked to the national Medium Term Expenditure Framework and annual budget cycles.
	Budget support requires multiple sectors to work together to develop a framework which creates incentives to achieve results.
	The introduction of budget support implies the need to build capacity at the local level