The program focuses on the urban water and sanitation subsector to promote development in the identified key satellite cities and in the city of Kigali. Its benefits include: (a) improved reliability and sustainability of the water supply and sanitation services; (b) overall improvement of the public health situation in the target cities and their surrounding areas, as a result of more reliable improved water supply and sanitation services, and (c) an enhanced operation & maintenance (O&M) capacity of Water & Sanitation Corporation Limited (WASAC).

The project will involve three major components: (i) Water Supply Infrastructure and Services Improvement component, (ii) sanitation infrastructure and services improvement, and (iii) Institutional Support. The water supply component will involve the construction of water production intakes, water treatment plants, storage facilities, transmission pipelines, and distribution systems for the city of Kigali and for the 6 satellites while the construction of landfills and feacal sludge treatment plants will cover 4 towns of Rusizi, Karongi, Rubavu and Musanze, and Centralized wastewater treatment system for the City of Kigali

• Rehabilitation, upgrading and extension of water supply network in Kigali City and peri-urban areas,
• Construction of Kigali city centralized sewerage treatment system and trunk sewer network,
• Rehabilitation and extension of water supply distribution networks in the City of Kigali and 6 secondary cities of Musanze, Rubavu and Muhanga, Nyagatare, Huye and Rusizi,
• Construction of landfills and feacal sludge treatment plants in the 4 towns of Rusizi, Karongi, Rubavu, and Musanze.