CASE STUDY
Transparency and Accountability of Rural Administrative Associations of Aqueducts
COSTA RICA
Case study 1
Background
In the past decade, Costa Rica has made significant progress in expanding access to water, but the sector faces key challenges in sanitation connections, service quality and cost recovery. The project aimed to develop measures to promote transparency and accountability of Rural Administrative Associations of Water Aqueducts (ASADAs) for their end users and the country’s water sector governing entities. Prior to this project, neither the national water authority nor any of the federations of ASADAs (currently totalling 1,500) had programs related to transparency and accountability, and the ASADAs and the National Water Authority (AyA) had a very weak relationship.
Central American & Caribbean