There is currently only one project under implementation, the PER-029-B bilateral programme in the Association of Municipalities of the Santo Tomas river (AMSAT), which aims to provide water and sanitation services to rural communities in five districts in the regions of Cusco and Apurímac, bringing the service to more than 5,300 people.
The programme is being implemented by the National Rural Sanitation Programme (PNSR) of the Ministry of Housing, Construction and Sanitation (MVCS), thanks to a collaboration agreement signed between the association of municipalities and the ministry. During 2020, progress was hampered by the quarantines and restrictions on mobility caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru, for which reason an extension of the execution period until December 2021 was applied for.
Nevertheless, and even in this difficult context, it was possible to make progress in finalising and approving all the designs, in organising the execution centres in the communities where the intervention is to be carried out – the planned execution method – and in transferring the resources to them before the end of the year in compliance with the regulations. In addition, it has been possible to make progress on the only work that had begun before the start of the pandemic and to start two new works, out of the total of 13 planned, before the end of the year.
