The United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/Bureau for Resilience and Food Security (RFS) Center for Water Security, Sanitation and Hygiene is issuing this Draft Program Description for the purpose of providing stakeholders and potential partners an opportunity to review, comment, suggest, and enhance areas of a new global water research activity: the Rural Water Research & Learning Activity. This activity is designed to support learning and fill evidence gaps identified in USAID’s Water for the World Implementation Research Agenda. It is one of a suite of new research and learning activities, which were previously described in Request for Information (RFI) #RFI-WASH-2020 issued on August 13, 2020. The purpose of the Rural Water Research & Learning activity is to expand the evidence base for rural water supply services and use of findings to inform rural water policy and programming in collaboration with partners, to increase the availability and sustainable management of safe drinking water for the underserved and most vulnerable.
Comments Due: February 10, 2021