Evaluation of the Water Supply Programme in Western Province, Zambia

The Evaluation Team was asked to assess the implementation and performance of the Western Province Water Supply Programme, and suggest strategies that might be pursued under future phases of the Programme. Since this is the first evaluation of the Programme, it covers the whole 9 year period 1977 1986. A considerable amount of work has therefore been invested in assessing the achievements in the earlier phases, in order to do justice to the Programme as of today.

Since its inception, the Programme has consisted of two parallel but very different projects in terms of organisation, technology, target groups, etc., i.e. the Rural Water Supply and the Township Water Supply components. For several reasons, these two components have been treated separately in the evaluation.