Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how the quality of water infrastructure funded by her Department is monitored.
The quality of infrastructure is critical in the design of DFID water programmes to ensure that the water provided is safe and the system can deliver a sustainable service. We monitor the quality of water infrastructure though processes such as field visits, annual reviews and in some programmes through independent monitoring, verification and evaluation providers who provide assessments of services delivered. In our results methodology we set out the requirements for DFID WASH programmes to show how they have addressed the sustainability of services provided by water infrastructure.