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Un garçon rempli son bidon d'eau en RDC. | Boy filling water container in Democratic Republic of Congo

SWIFT programme overview

The SWIFT Consortium aims to deliver sustainable access to safe water and sanitation and encourage the adoption of basic hygiene practices in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Kenya. Led by Oxfam, the consortium includes Tearfund and ODI as Global Members, and Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) as Global Associate, along with many implementing partners in the two focus countries.

By March 2016, the SWIFT Consortium had reached almost 850,000 people in the DRC and Kenya with safe water or sanitation, and hygiene promotion activities (WASH) – in some cases all three. It will continue to work with communities, local authorities, health bodies, utilities and radio stations until March 2018 to build capacity and ensure interventions are sustainable.

In March 2017, SWIFT started preparations for a second programme in DRC that will reach more than 700,000 people with WASH activities across the three provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu and Maniema. The programme will be delivered in 20 months between May 2017 and December 2018. It will be followed by a 15 month extension phase, ending with the endline survey in March 2020.

The SWIFT Consortium is funded with UK aid from the British people under a ‘Payment by Results’ contract.

DFID’s WASH Results Programme

The UK government committed to making progress on providing access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) by December 2015, when the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) expired. It set up a WASH Results Programme, directly managed by the Department for International Development (DFID), to deliver WASH interventions.

The overall objective of the programme is to reach 4.5 million people and to strengthen national and local systems, building capacity to help ensure interventions are sustainable. The SWIFT Consortium is one of three consortia implementing activities as part of DFID’s WASH Results Programme and working to achieve this objective.

La strategie de DfID du financement basé sur les résultats

Payment by Results

All three consortia working under DFID’s WASH Results Programme are being funded under ‘Payment By Results‘ (PbR) contracts. Instead of a grant, payment is tied to outputs and outcomes that are monitored and verified by a third-party organisation, with non-delivery by the deadline resulting in non-payment.

Results must also be sustainable if the SWIFT Consortium is to receive payment in full. Following the deadline for delivery, the consortium has two years to follow up and continue to engage with communities and local government to ensure sustainability.  Checks will be carried out in 2017 and March 2018, and non-sustainability will result in reduced payment.

Sustainable WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene)

The SWIFT Consortium is working to support sustainability in all its dimensions across water supply, sanitation and hygiene services in Kenya and DRC. The five dimensions of WASH sustainability set out by DFID in the WASH Results Programme are institutional, functional, financial, environmental and equity.

The SWIFT programme aims to strengthen national and local systems, building capacity among local implementing partners, local and national government departments, utility companies, private-sector actors delivering WASH and communities.

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About SWIFT

Since 2014, the Sustainable WASH In Fragile Contexts (SWIFT) Consortium has been working to provide access to water and sanitation and to encourage the adoption of basic hygiene practices in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and in Kenya. Various partners implement SWIFT’s actions in both target countries, in collaboration with governments as well as water providers, including utilities. The consortium is led by Oxfam, and includes Tearfund and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) as global members. The SWIFT programme is funded by UK aid from the UK government under a Payment by Results (PbR) contract.

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