Type of service provide :

Supporting water and sanitation service providers in the regions of Cusco (6 operators) and Arequipa (1 operator) with assessing the natural risks to which they are exposed and which threaten both the integrity of their infrastructure and their service operations.

• Reviewing the available regional-level data available on hazards, infrastructure and its operational status, and on risk management processes currently used by service providers;
• Segmenting water and sanitation networks and describing their operational status; developing analytical models for describing and presenting hazards, vulnerability and risk; producing a cartographic atlas broken down by region and by provider;
• Organizing field survey campaigns (4 teams x 16 days) to inform the assessment: conducting surveys of non-geo-referenced infrastructure, determining its vulnerability, carrying out participatory risk mapping with local communities;
• Submitting a natural risks assessment study, set out by region and by service provider, and providing geo-referenced databases;
• Organizing a collaborative, multi-stakeholder workshop to brainstorm potential prevention and reduction measures;
• Formulating risk prevention and mitigation plans, set out by region and by operator, which included a budgeted and timed action plan, a monitoring framework, and an investment plan.

Type of service provide :

• Structuring the evaluation work plan and methodology;
• Conducting an in-depth documentary analysis;
• Holding semi-structured interviews with all program stakeholders;
• Surveying 584 households, and program beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries;
• Undertaking technical visits to 57 systems and interviewing the Sanitation Service Boards (JASS) of these systems;
• Holding focus group discussions with 15 beneficiary communities;
• Conducting an evaluative analysis and producing conclusions and recommendations;
• Drafting evaluation reports;
• Facilitating workshops to present the results and jointly define recommendations.