Peru: The Lima Water Project provides network water and sanitation service to 130,000 people in peri-urban neighborhoods. The project design is based on two fundamental principles: (a) working directly with the communities; (b) use of innovative technologies to minimize cost. The project is being implemented by the public water utility in Lima, in collaboration with CSOs, to facilitate the work with the communities. The beneficiaries of the project have average family incomes of US$150 per month.
Senegal: The Government of Senegal initiated a Water Sector Project which brought in a private operator (SDE) that successfully connected about 60,000 low-income households living in informal urban settlements under a comprehensive program of public standpipes and economical house connections. The publication entitled Innovative Contracts, Sound Relationships: Urban Water Sector Reform in Senegal (329k pdf) analyzes a successful reform process in Senegal. A Feature Story on Urban Water Sector Reform in Senegal stresses that the Water Sector Project resulted in significantly better services and financial health for the sector.
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