Dominican Republic Water Sector Modernization Program

The development objective of the Water Sector Modernization Program for Dominican Republic is to increase access to safely managed water and sanitation services in selected areas. The government program is a 10-year subset of the water pact, focused on water supply and sanitation (WSS) and water resources management (WRM) across the entire geographic area of the Dominican Republic, which will be implemented by three multi-annual public sector plan (PNPSPs). The Multiphase Programmatic Approach (MPA) program will support the following six elements of the government’s transformational program: (i) a national WSS modernization program; (ii) rehabilitation, construction, and expansion of WSS infrastructure; (iii) strengthening resilience of water infrastructure; (iv) WRM and WSS legal, institutional, and policy framework; (v) WRM information systems; and (vi) dam safety and operation in selected geographic areas, which are critical elements to increase the county’s resilience to climate shocks.