Water supply system of Kabul: Transitional Support Programme (TSP)

Project details
Country: 
Afghanistan
Beneficiary: 
Central Authority for Water Supply and Sanitation
Donor organisation: 
KfW Development Bank
Associated enterprises: 
Sachsen Wasser
Department: 
Water
Project volume: 
1,738,283 €
Currency: 
€
Value of services: 
531,219 €
Start of project: 
December, 2006
End of project: 
August, 2009
Project description: 

The piped water supply system of Kabul was seriously neglected and damaged during the eighties and nineties and the war against the Taliban. After their fall an Immediate Assistance Programme (IAP), funded by KfW, was launched in 2002 with the objective to repair and rehabilitate part of the existing installations to increase water production. However, water supply was still insufficient because of the extraordinary post-war population increase and the extension of the urban area. Therefore, the implementation of a comprehensive extension project started in 2005. After completion, targeted for 2009, an average production of 120,000m3/day was planned to serve more than 2 million users. The total investment volume was to be in the range of about 30 million Euros.

In order to ensure a professional and sustainable operation of the rehabilitated and new installations, the Transitional Support Programme (TSP) was implemented by the Joint Venture Sachsenwasser-RODECO (now GOPA Infra). It comprised institutional strengthening, operational support and training for the Kabul Branch of the Central Authority for Water Supply and Sewerage (CAWSS) to be corporatised up to mid-2007 as Afghan Urban Water Supply and Sewerage Corporation (AUWSSC). The TSP was implemented in close cooperation with the support activities of GTZ for CAWSS Kabul executed by RODECO (FC – TC Cooperation Project). The GTZ project mainly addressed the financial and commercial management whereas the TSP covered general and technical management issues.

Service description: 

Support of the ongoing process of institutional reform and institution-building of CAWSS Kabul:

  1. review and adaptation of organisational and staffing structure, development of job descriptions (technical departments);
  2. development/ completion of operational regulations and procedures;
  3. outline of administrative regulations and procedures (corporate rules);
  4. development of business planning (in cooperation with GTZ);
  5. procurement of major equipment, hard- and software.

Support and training in vital management and technical fields of a water supply utility:

  1. handholding of CAWSS Kabul executives in general management;
  2. technical management, operation and maintenance of all rehabilitated installations;
  3. support in engineering, extensions and leak detection and repair;
  4. support in taking over and O&M of the new plants and distribution systems constructed under the Extension Programme;
  5. support in groundwater resources management, monitoring and protection;
  6. support in groundwater and distributed water quality control and monitoring;
  7. definition of performance indicators as a basis for the future management contract.
Currency: 
€