Rural water Supply and Sanitation Toolkit for Multisector Projects

Rural water Supply and Sanitation is often a high development priority in communities and there good examples of communities actively participating in the planning and emplementation of RWSS subprojects. However, a presistent challenge is how to ensure quality and sustainability of the services that these water and sanitation subprojects are designed to provide.

Decades of experience have a produced a body of knowledge which can be useful and instructive in addresing these issues. This toolkit has been devised to help multisector task managers tap into body of knowledge.
The toolkit is divided into the following main sections: Basic priciples in RWSS, Rapid sector assessment, Sanitation and hygiene promotion, RWSS in the project cycle, Reaources.