Estado:
Complete
Location:
Medan - Indonesia
Region:
Asia
Total cost:
USD $0
Duration:
1 year
Start:
26 April 2009
End:
29 April 2010
Working Areas
Sanitation & Hygiene Services
Service in Low-Income Areas
Organizations Involved
Perusahaan Daerah Air Minum (Regional Water Utility Company) Tirtanadi Medan — Lead Mentee
Maynilad Water Services Inc. — Lead Mentor
WaterLinks
Broker
SDGs
6.2Access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all
Project description
MWSI will share its experience and assist PDAM to adopt best practices in serving the urban poor
Project main objectives
provide water supplies to 3,500 low-income households in Medan, Indonesia; in this twinning arrangement MWSI will share its experience and assist PDAM to adopt best practices in serving the urban poor; they developed a work plan, which emphasized knowledge exchange to build Tirtanadi capacity in reaching out to communities, designing better service delivery models and understanding potential solutions for land ownership issues;
Most significant results
Implementing the communal master meter approach,
Tirtanadi, with support from the Medan municipality, met the
needs of unserved low-income residents.
As of April 2010, Tirtanadi and the Medan municipality installed 2,200 connections to serve about 11,000 people
in low-income areas through master meters and direct
household schemes.