DFID Guidance Manual on Water Supply and Sanitation Programme

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This Manual has been prepared as a tool to help improve DFID’s support for water supply and sanitation (WS&S) projects and programmes in developing countries. Its particular focus is on how DFID assistance can best meet the needs of the urban and rural poor for WS&S services. To facilitate the targeting of the poor reflects the objective of UK international development support set out in the White Paper on International Development ‘better education, health and opportunities for poor people’ — one of three objectives
contributing to the general aim ‘the elimination of poverty in poor countries’.

The Manual has been written primarily for DFID staff: both those identifying, appraising, and evaluating WS&S projects; and those developing, managing, and monitoring such projects. DFID believes that the discussions of WS&S sector issues and approaches, and the resulting policies and procedures, will also be of interest to its project partners in national and local governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and other external support agencies. The Manual will also inform DFID contractors and consultants of the Department’s objectives and the approaches to be followed in achieving them.

Professional engineers, health scientists, economists, and sociologists are all closely involved in the achievement of sustainable WS&S services for the poor. Each needs to know not
only his/her own role and objectives, but also the experiences and approaches which guide the others. The comparatively lengthy discussion of key principles and practices in Section 2 of the Manual is intended to contribute to this cross-fertilization. Specialists are urged to read the sections related to other disciplines and to accept the extended elaboration of concepts which should be familiar to them in their own sections.

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Bibliographical Information:

WELL (Water and Environmental Health at London and Loughborough) (1998) DFID Guidance Manual on Water Supply and Sanitation Programme. , WEDC, DFID

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