Pipeline Development Toolkit Framework

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched the Expanding Water and Sanitation project (Expanding WASH) in Zambia to support the professionalization of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services, promote accountability for reliable and high-quality WASH services, and to enhance the enabling environment for private sector engagement (PSE) in WASH service delivery.

Planet Partnerships is supporting the execution of this mandate through the design and implementation of PSE strategies to facilitate private sector-driven and sustainable access to safe WASH services in the Northern, Western, Southern, and Muchinga Provinces. Specifically, Planet Partnerships’ scope includes the following technical areas:

• Policy: Conducting diagnostics and assessments of the enabling environment for investment and private sector participation in the WASH sector and supporting reform efforts to strengthen the framework.
• Pilots: Identifying, screening, and piloting projects and transactions to introduce and strengthen private sector participation in the WASH sector.
• General PSE and Partnerships: Facilitating public-private dialogue (PPD), strengthening PSE strategies, and supporting the project team in PSE and partnership development.

This Report presents the Pipeline Development Toolkit Framework, providing methodological guidance to the following stages of pipeline development:

1. Conducting the Problem, Priority, Solution (PPS) Workshops
2. Developing the Long List of Projects
3. Applying the Screening Criteria and Methodology
4. Applying the Prioritization Criteria and Methodology
5. Developing the Shortlist of Pilot Projects
6. Preparing Pilot Project Roadmaps

Related Resources

• USAID Expanding Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Activity Fact Sheet
• A New Approach to Sanitation in Zambia