Rwanda has made good progress inextending water supply and sanitation coverage during thepast few years, under clear political commitment to threecomplementary sets of targets: the economic development andpoverty reduction strategy (2012), millennium developmentgoals (2015), and vision 2020. The report aims to helpcountries assess their own service delivery pathways forturning finance into water supply and sanitation services ineach of four subsectors: rural and urban water supply, andrural and urban sanitation and hygiene. Rwanda is closingthe gap on its targets, but is unlikely to attain therequired coverage levels by 2015 without an increase infinancing. The coverage trend over the past 10 years forrural water supply demonstrates the country's capacityfor developing new projects; while for sanitation theenabling environment and capacity for service developmentwill need to be strengthened further in the medium term.Households' capacity for sharing the costs of watersupply capital investments is limited, and the strategyviews their main contribution as being towards operationsand maintenance costs, through water fees and tariffs. Therural water supply subsector has switched from a communitymanagement model, to one of public-private partnership.Nearly 30 percent of rural water schemes are already managedby private operators and the economic and poverty reductionstrategy aims for 50 percent by 2012. This second AfricanMinisters' Council on Water (AMCOW) Country StatusOverview (CSO2) has been produced in collaboration with theGovernment of Rwanda and other stakeholders.
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