The Small Infrastructure for Water and Sanitation (SIWS) Program in Kosovo will maximize the impact of USAID funding by focusing its work in four of the poorest municipalities in partnership with three of the best performing Regional Water Companies (RWCs).

IRD was recently awarded this three-year program in Kosovo, which consists of installing, rehabilitating, expanding, and upgrading water and sewage systems in four municipalities in Kosovo. The program will also generate $3 million in cost-share from Regional Water Companies, municipalities and communities.
SIWS has established partnerships with the municipal authorities of Peje, Kline, Gllogoc and Malisheve, and their corresponding RWCs - Hidrodrini, Hidroregjioni Jugor, and Pristina. Over the life of the program, SIWS will mobilize and commit $6,240,000, including cost-sharing in project works benefiting over 85,000 citizens of Kosovo with improved access to safe water supply and sanitation.

Working in partnerships with RWCs, the four selected municipalities, and communities as well as with the Association of Regional Water Companies, SHUKOS, to disseminate good water supply and management planning practice will help insure that the program can be successfully expanded and used in other parts of the new country.

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