The Philippine Water Supply and Sanitation Master Plan (PWSSMP) serves as the national action plan to achieve universal access to safe, sufficient, affordable, and sustainable water supply, hygiene, and sanitation by 2030. The PWSSMP defines the activities, responsible agencies, and budget necessary to support the WSS sector in addressing the needs of the country. The Plan mission is that every Filipinos have access to a sustainable and affordable safe water supply as well as adequate safely managed sanitation services. The Plan further describes priority reforms and investment program including establishing effective WSS sector institutions; strengthening the regulatory environment; creating and ensuring effective WSS services; balancing water supply and demand; building climate resiliency; enabling access to funding and financing; managing data and information; and driving research and development. The text further provides for financing program, implementation, monitoring and evaluation arrangements. The overall strategy of the PWSSMP is to establish a living plan that is comprehensive, participatory, and operational, while in this light the Plan takes into account the scope, limitations and assumptions such as potential water sources, using technology for distribution of the water resources and rainwater, improve sanitation facilities, and taking into account the climate change and natural hazards such as flooding and erosion. The Plan defines access to water and sanitation as a human right and defines principles for integrated water resource management. The text further identifies eight key reform agenda (KRA) prioritizing specific interventions for the WSS sector. These KRA are considered as soft components and are based on important issues and challenges confronting the sector. The PWSSMP shall be executed through 4 phases starting from 2019 till 2030 as are described in Section 6.3 of the Plan covering pre-investment activities, priority investment programs, execution of the investment program and implementation of any remaining and/or unfinished PAPs. The Plan consists of 6 Chapters as follow: Introduction (1); Sector Overview (2); Vision and Development Outcomes (3); Priority Reforms, Programs and Activities (4); Investment Program and Financing Plan (5); and Implementation, Monitoring, and Evaluation Arrangements (6).
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