The program, driven by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), aims to contribute to increase access and quality of water, sanitation, and hygiene services in rural communities, with an emphasis on gender, diversity, and climate change for an inclusive, resilient, and sustainable rural sector, through the exchange of experiences and the promotion of scalable best practices, SIRWASH strengthens strategic alliances and fosters collaborative learning among sector actors, facilitating continuous improvement of services and contributing to sustainable development in rural communities.
The program is implemented in four countries: Peru, Brazil, Haiti and Bolivia.
SIRWASH program aims to improve enabling policy, innovation and knowledge exchange environments and to foster the necessary capacities to deliver sustainable quality WASH services to rural communities with a particular focus on the vulnerable and disadvantaged people.

Through this component, the program supports authorities at local, national, and global levels in developing, promoting, and implementing improved and tailored rural WASH policies, fostering dialogue and knowledge exchange for enhancing the relevance of rural initiatives.

The primary goal of this component is to strengthen local and national WASH institutions and enhance the capacities, expertise, and networks of rural WASH actors by knowledge dissemination and exchange spaces.

Innovation is crucial to addressing the primary challenges in rural water, sanitation, and hygiene services. SIRWASH promotes and support implementers of rural WASH services to develop, adopt and apply financial, technological and social innovations.
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Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation services for all.
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