The compact’s Water Supply, Sanitation and Drainage Project has two activities:

• Infrastructure Activity: This activity will support infrastructure managed by the Lusaka Water and Sewerage Company (LWSC), the utility primarily responsible for managing the city’s water and sanitation infrastructure, as well as the Lusaka City Council (LCC), the local government entity responsible for managing Lusaka’s drainage infrastructure. A major portion of the investment is focused on the rehabilitation of Lusaka’s core water supply network, including components designed specifically to reduce nonrevenue water.
  
  This activity also includes interventions designed to expand the city’s water supply network, rehabilitate and enlarge select sewer networks, improve select drainage infrastructure, and provide support for engineering and resettlement professional services. Each of the water supply and sanitation components was selected based on investment master plans and feasibility studies. These chart a three-phase, $3 billion plan that will allow Lusaka to meet the needs of its population through 2035. The drainage component was selected based on the results of priorities identified in a separate comprehensive urban development plan funded by the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA). 
   
• Institutional Strengthening Activity: MCC will make investments to help support sector and institutional strengthening for LWSC and LCC. This activity will provide technical assistance to LWSC and LCC to continue ongoing government sector reform efforts and pursue new ones designed to ensure improved sector management and sustainability of the compact. The activity also includes support for better asset and environmental management by LWSC and provides technical assistance for LCC to improve its strategic planning and conduct better maintenance and environmental management for the city’s drainage network.
  
  Support will be provided to LWSC and LCC for mainstreaming gender policies, improving service delivery to poor and underserved populations and carrying out well-designed and coordinated information, education and communications campaigns. The activity aims to increase innovation in pro-poor service delivery in the water sector through grants to community-based organizations, civil society and/or private sector entities to enhance and support the compact’s sustainability.