Capacity-building for sustainable service delivery in lower-income communities

The Consortium for Integrated Municipal Sanitation Systems has developed a framework for evaluating a community's capacity to sustain the delivery of municipal sanitation services. The framework is applicable to planning for other sustainable community services. This project uses this framework to assess and evaluate education and tourism services in two different low-income communities. The factors limiting the sustainability of these two services are identified by the framework and are used to evaluate the type and level of service appropriate for each respective community.