Brazil: Pernambuco Rural Water and Sanitation Project (PROSAR)

The objective of the Pernambuco Rural Water and Sanitation Project for Brazil is to increase access to sustainable, safely managed drinking water supply and improved sanitation in selected rural communities and to build the Borrower’s capacity to reach universal RWSS services. There are three components to the project. The first component being increase access to climate-resilient, safely managed RWS and improved sanitation. This component aims at increasing rural population’s access to safely managed drinking water supply resilient to water scarcity, droughts and floods, and improved on-site sanitation solutions, thereby contributing to the State universal WSS access goal and increasing the rural population’s resilience to climate change exacerbated water scarcity, droughts, and floods. This component includes three subcomponents: increase access to safely managed RWS and improved on-site sanitation solutions with climate-resilient designs, improve climate-resilience of water sources, and innovate with climate-resilient, safely managed RWSS pilot solutions for universal access. The second component is to build the Borrower’s capacity to reach universal and climate resilient RWSS access and sustainably managed RWS systems and their water sources. This component includes two subcomponents: build the Borrower’s capacity to reach universal RWSS access and sustainably managed RWS systems, and strengthen the resilience of the Borrower’s RWS systems’ water sources under climate risks. Finally, the third component is the project management. This component strengthens the Borrower’s capacity to carry out the Project through, inter alia, (a) the setting up and operationalization of the PMU, in particular with respect to (i) the coordination, management and administration of Project’s activities; (ii) the hiring of staff and of key consultancy firms; (iii) the delivery of training; (iv) the provision of equipment; (v) the carrying out of financial management and procurement...