Community Management of Water Supply Services in Colombia

This document seeks to characterise the challenges confronted by community management of water supply systems, as well as the institutional solutions that exist for the sector. The needs for support are highlighted as recognised by communities grouped into Associations. In the preparation of this document, work has been mainly focused on carrying out interviews with officials of different institutions and community leaders. Furthermore, it is based on information produced on the basis of an inventory and pre-diagnostic carried out under the framework of the Rural Water Supply Programme for the Department of Valle del Cauca (PAAR), in which 90 projects in rural areas of Valle del Cauca, serve 206 communities and 126,543 inhabitants.