COUNTRY CONTEXT
The drinking water and sanitation situation still faces many challenges in the Dominican Republic, where there is still no legal or regulatory framework and the institutional framework needs to be strengthened. The level of fulfilment of human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation is progressively advancing but is still deficient and maintains large gaps between urban, peripheral urban and rural populations. Continuous access to quality water and effective sanitation in the country remains a challenge.
On the other hand, the country does not have complete, updated and organised information on its water resources, which makes it very difficult to achieve an orchestrated planning of all water uses or to guarantee the viability of the proposed actions.
The Fund’s lines of action in the Dominican Republic are related to governance, the implementation of human rights to water and sanitation and rural and peri-urban development, as well as the strengthening of the sustainability of water and sanitation systems.
