Water and Wastewater Sector Support Program (WWSS)

$40.71M USD

Funder	U.S. Agency for International Development
Recipient Organization	Chemonics International, Inc.
Country	Egypt
Start Date	Aug 27, 2009
End Date	Nov 02, 2013
Duration	1,528 days
Number of Grantees	68
Roles	Recipient
Data Source	US Foreign Aid
Grant ID	`187540-76`

Grant Description

The Water and Wastewater Sector Support (WWSS) Program was USAIDs most recent effort in water and sanitation in Egypt, building on more than 30-years of assistance.

Initial agreements focused on infrastructure development, while more recent projects focused on legal, regulatory, and institutional reform and on capacity building of service providers.

In particular, USAID played a key role in the sector reform that resulted in formation of the Holding Company for Water and Wastewater (HCWW) and the Egyptian Water Regulatory Agency (EWRA) in 2004, and subsequently designed institutional strengthening efforts working directly with these new sector leaders.

Launched in 2008, the WWSS Program targeted HCWW and 13 of its 25 subsidiary companies, while the parallel Water Policy and Regulatory Reform (WPRR) Program targeted the EWRA and its parent agency, the Ministry of Housing, Utilities, and Urban Development (MHUUD).