World Bank Launches Rural Water Supply, Sanitation and Budget Support Guidelines for Task Teams

The Guidelines website and publication (in English and French) are designed to assist development practitioners using budget support/development policy lending to achieve rural water supply and sanitation (WSS) targets in national Poverty Reduction Strategies and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Budget support operations channel funds to national budgets and engage with fundamental policy reforms. In countries where governments and donors have recognized its potential, budget support represents a unique opportunity to scale up the fight against poverty and work towards the MDG targets.