The project aspires to support long-term uptake of risk-based management approaches in policy and practice and strengthen government capacities in delivering effective drinking-water quality surveillance, especially in rural areas. The project consists of the following building blocks:

1. Scaling-up application of water safety plans (WSP) in rural Tajikistan through

institutional capacity building on WSPs and educating national WSP facilitators;
implementing demonstration WSPs in ten rural communities, including providing support to managerial and infrastructural improvements;
supporting the development of a national WSP roadmap and a national WSP guidelines
2. Developing effective and sustainable strategies to drinking-water quality monitoring in rural areas through

Building capacities on risk-based monitoring approaches;
Improving laboratory capacities of Sanitary Epidemiological Services to enable routine analysis of core health-relevant water quality parameters;
3. Promoting the human right to water and raising awareness on the interplay of safe water, sanitation, hygiene behavior and disease prevention.