The Strengthening Service Provider Accountability for Improving the Water Supply Services Project or Program WaterAid for 3 Provinces.

A total of the twenty-three private water operators whom are the CWA members are operating within six districts in the three provinces (Samaki Meanchey and Kampong Tralach Districts, Kampong Chhnang province, Kandal Steung and Ang Snoul districts, Kandal province, and Samrong Tong and Thpong districts, Kampong Speu province) will be joined with the project on Strengthening Service Provider Accountability for Improving the Water Supply Services.

The two years project implementation is expected 30,000 people access to clean water, at least 20% of households who have family members are working at the Garment Factory and including the 460 of ID poor 1 & 2 households and most marginalized households (disabled, elder people, female-headed households and people living with HIV and AID) will be connected to the water supply and access to clean water.

The project will begin the actual implementing in early of January 2021 and complete project by the end of December 2022. The design of the project is fully engaged with Private Water Operators, sub-national authorities including Provincial Department of Industry, Science, Technology & Innovation (PDISTI), district governors, district officers, commune councils, village chiefs and community people, especially the Vulnerable people.

The central principle that guided the design is the commitment to participatory engagement and empowerment of communities and transformation of systems and structures. The implementation approaches call for integration of project activities with other existing project from other NGOs and/or development partners as well as other complementary sectors, particularly the Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) technical working groups.

The project design has taken into account the national program environment and has chosen interventions that have been identified as priorities for contributing to the achieving the target of the Royal Government of Kingdom of Cambodia, Sustainable Development Goal SDG-6:

• • • • By 2025, 100% urban population access to safe, affordable and sustainable water supply, in which 90% supply from pipe water and 10% from other sources.
      • By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all.

The goal of the project is to “To strengthen the roles and responsibilities of local authorities, private water operators and community people on water supply services in order to increase the satisfaction in level of services provided by water operators”.