WASH Investment Enabling Environment Diagnostic Tool

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 lays out the WASH Investment Enabling Environment Diagnostic Tool, which will be used to assess the prevailing investment enabling environment in the WASH sector in Zambia and develop corresponding recommendations for potential short- and long-term reforms.

Related Resources

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