Potable Water and Sanitation Sector Project The Project generally aims at restructuring the institutional framework of the Haitian water sub-sector and improving the efficiency of the potable water and sanitation sub-sectors by enhancing and sustaining their quality and coverage across the country as well as supporting the establishment of an
independent potable water and sanitation regulatory agency (PWS) and the privatization of water provision services in Port-au-Prince and other urban centres. The Project consists of the following components:

a) Reform implementation, encompassing the regulatory framework subcomponent, relating to the engagement of legal consultancy services to finalize the sector reform legal instruments; the training and technical assistance sub-component, relating to the provision of consultancy services for the establishment of CREPA (an independent potable water and sanitation commission) and to assist in familiarizing municipalities and ONEPA (the national office for potable water and sanitation) with
the sector's regulatory framework; the sector investment policy subcomponent, relating to the finalization of the capital investment requirements of the sector; the training and technical assistance to ONEPA sub-component, relating to the engagement of consultancy services for designing ONEPA's organizational structure together with its functional systems; and the environmental capacity strengthening sub-component, relating to the implementation of a training program to
strengthen the environmental capacity of the sector's institutional and community-based participants;

b) Infrastructure, covering the urban systems sub-component, relating to the rehabilitation and expansion of potable water and sanitation subprojects in ten cities, including Port-au-Prince, preparation of related master plans and feasibility studies, institutional strengthening of PWS
branches in those localities and provision of technical assistance to local service providers; the rural and pen-urban systems sub-component, relating to the rehabilitation and expansion of micro-projects in rural and marginal urban areas, including pre-project development activities, technical designs and financial analysis, execution and supervision of works as well as technical assistance and provision of training for systems operators; and the surveillance system sub-component, relating to the establishment of a surveillance system to monitor the impact of projects and waterborne diseases occurrence rates;

c) Private sector participation, consisting of the allocation of resources for the privatization of PWS operations in Port-au-Prince and other urban areas through leasing or service contracts with private operators as well as the provision of technical assistance for training ONEPA staff in the supervision of such operations, contracting services and rationalization of sector staffing; and 

d) Project administration, involving the provision of support to project management activities to be carried out by the sector reform unit, coverage of project management costs within ONEPA, the engagement of consultancy services for the preparation and design of project activities, bidding documents and the financial management of the project, together with the costs of equipment, vehicles and staff travel.