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Download fileDecentralised intersectoral rural water supply and sanitation provision: lessons learned from Zambia
conference contribution
posted on 2018-02-12, 15:10 authored by Christopher Lungu, Peter HarveyThe integrated, inter-sectoral approach to rural water supply and sanitation provision adopted under
Zambia’s Water, Sanitation and Health/Hygiene Education (WASHE) strategy has had limited success in
delivering sustainable services. Given this context, the Government of the Republic of Zambia has recently
proposed a new institutional structure and strategy under the National Rural Water Supply and Sanitation
Programme. While the new strategy has significant potential for better planning, implementation and
performance monitoring, it is heavily dependent on effective decentralisation, which is moving very slowly.
It also threatens to undo the positive gains established by a widespread understanding of the need for an
interdisciplinary approach to water, sanitation and hygiene provision.
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