Timor Leste Water Supply and Sanitation Project

The objective of the Water Supply and Sanitation Project for Timor-Leste is to increase access to safely managed drinking water and sanitation services in the municipality of Baucau. The Project has three components. 1. Water Supply and Sanitation Infrastructure Development component will finance: (a) The construction of the centralized water supply system in the municipal capital of Baucau; (b) The construction of a Septage Treatment Plant (STP); (c) The construction of three simplified, community-based decentralized sewerage network and treatment systems. 2. Infrastructure Sustainability Support component will ensure the sustainability of water and sanitation infrastructures financed under Component 1. 3. Institutional Strengthening and Project Management component will finance operational costs associated with (a) technical, environmental, and social supervision of subprojects’ implementation (including the implementation of the Gender Action Plan [GAP]); (b) project audits and monitoring and evaluation activities under the project; and (c) provision of administrative and operational support to the Project Management Unit (PMU), including personnel and equipment for its operationalization.