International Development Grant
Water and Sanitation Capacity Building
Project Number: CA-3-A030493001
Status: Closed
Country/Region:
Maximum Contribution: $9,748,723.00
Start Date: August 02, 2000
End Date: September 30, 2010
Duration: 10.2 years
Project Description
The goal of the project is to improve health and living conditions in selected communities of Peru by strengthening the capacity of municipal authorities to provide water and sanitation services and by improving water and sanitation infrastructure. The project helps to strengthen the municipalities' capacity to design operate and maintain infrastructure as well as strengthening their administrative capacities. The capacity building is achieved through a mix of training coaching and learning-by-doing while implementing water and sanitation projects. The project also contributes to rebuilding and rehabilitating key components of the water and sanitation infrastructure in the city of Ica following the August 2007 earthquake in Peru.
Progress & Results Achieved
Results achieved as of the end of the project: The project provided technical assistance to the municipal water authority and to the regional government as they prepared and submitted technical documentation to Peru’s National System for Public Investment (SNIP) for the expansion and improvement of the city’s waste water treatment plant and a new gravity-fed drinking water supply for the city which is located on the coast. Additionally stakeholders municipalities water sector actors and large numbers of the general population of Ica developed improved awareness of the water supply and waste water treatment projects as a result of the widespread and regular coverage in local media coordination meetings convened with local stakeholders and several large town hall meetings organized by WUSC Project local partners and the UNDP Post-Earthquake Reconstruction Coordination Office in Ica.
Key Information
Executing Agency:
WUSC - World University Service of Canada
Reporting Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Program:
NGM Americas
Last Modified:
September 19, 2025
Development Classifications
DAC Sector:
Aid Type: Project-type interventions
Collaboration: Bilateral
Finance Type: Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Selection Mechanism:
Pre-APP