An innovative fast-track Community-based Water Supply and Sanitation Project in Xieng Ngeun District in cooperation with the state-owned water supply enterprise of the Province of Luangprabang, with an objective to demonstrate how a community can work with a water supply entity to acquire water and adequate sanitation and also to enhance capacity of the public utility and the civil society.

Other fast-track community-based water and sanitation projects in Sayabouly and Phine towns.

Similar fast-track Community-based Water Supply and Sanitation Pilot Projects in Puer, Jinghong and Shuangjiang Cities of Yunnan Province, PR China.

Over 13,000 poor urban residents in 9 communities in Cam Ranh town of Khanh Hoa province, Vietnam are benefited by UN-HABITAT’s fast-track Community-based Water and Sanitation Project.

UN-HABITAT’s joint projects with ADB benefited 8 towns of the Mekong region with water and sanitation services.

UN-HABITAT and ADB joint missions resulted in conducting regional stakeholders’ workshops in Lao PDR,Vietnam, Cambodia and P.R. China and support to ADB’s PPTA for towns in the MEKONG Region.

UN-HABITAT and ADB collaboration helped the region to:

• initiate reforms,
• demonstrate innovative and community based approaches,
• developed capacities of the service providers and communities, and
• provided a basis for planning follow-up pro-poor investments.
  

Twelve fast track projects in the region to benefit over 20,000 people from improved water and sanitation.

Community-based Sanitation Projects in Prek Thmei, Snoul and Siam Reap.

Focus on in-country resource mobilization; implementation of community-based Water and Sanitation Projects in Puer, Shanglin and Tianyang.

A Cross-border Town and Sanitation Project in Vilabouly, Dansavanh and Kaysone Phomvihane districts of Savannakhet Province with an aim to improve the environmental sanitation conditions and provide sustainable sanitation facilities to the urban poor communities by establishing sanitation infrastructure and through capacity building of stakeholders. Activities include:

• rapid assessment, IEE and poverty mapping;
• capacity building and awareness rising from policy level to community level;
• improvement of environmental sanitation and sanitation coverage;
• pilot demonstration activities on sanitation facilities; and
• cross-border town cooperation with Lao Bao town in Vietnam for capacity building of water authority and provincial and district authority.
  

Community-based Water Supply and Sanitation initiative for Urban Cluster Villages in new Phiang District which aims at:

• providing safe piped water to five villages in New Phiang Town including a boarding school;
• improving the environmental sanitation;
• introducing water conservation and demand management and HVWSHE;
• undertaking pilot demonstration projects; and
• capacity building of the Sayabouly Water Supply Enterprise, the New Phiang District Authority and the Community.
  

Public-Private partnership projects in selected urban communities.

Community-based water supply and sanitation projects in Vilabouly district, Savannakhet Province, in Nong Bua and Nong Weng villages, Paksan District, Bolikhamxay Province.

Expansion of water supply distribution pipeline and connections to the poor people in Dong Ha town (Quang Tri province),

Community-based Water Supply and Sanitation Projects in Khe Tre, Thua thien-Hue Province (Northern Central),

Carbon Market Initiative (CMI) and the Energy Efficient Initiative (EEI) in Vietnam as a pilot demonstration project.