Regional Partners are one of the four organizations along with AguaClara-Cornell, Donors, and communities involved in any AguaClara project.
Drinking water supply infrastructure whether implemented at the community or household scale requires a commitment to building both physical infrastructure and community capacity and expectations of success. The construction phase is approximately 4 months and is only a small fraction of the project calendar. Regional Partners take the lead role in choosing communities, based on water quality deficiencies and equally important, on community assets such as organization and ability to maintain qualified operators and finance the aluminum sulfate and chlorine.
A - Assess Community
S - Structural Design
B - Build
O - Operate
T - Train
T - Transfer
O - Oversee
M - Monitor
The Regional Partner assumes responsibility for selecting communities based on community prerequisites. Initial sites should be located within very close proximity to the regional partner's offices to simplify logistics for the first projects. The