Costs And Gaps In The Financing Of Water Services In The Ethiopian Lowlands

This note, developed by USAID’s Lowland Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Project in Ethiopia provides a current briefing on financing of rural water services in lowland Ethiopia as of 2018, based on case studies from Mile in Afar and South Ari in SNNPR. These used Life Cycle Costs Analysis tools to identify critical gaps in current financing. The briefing is intended to help policy- and decision-makers at national and regional levels reflect on the growing challenge of financing sustainable services.