The overarching goal of the Tanzania iWASH Program is to support sustainable, market-driven water supply, sanitation, and hygiene services to improve health and increase eco-nomic resiliency of the poor in targeted rural areas and small towns within an integrated wa-ter resource management framework. To achieve this goal, the program has five specific objectives:

Objective 1 : Increase sustainable access to water supply by poor rural and small town dwellers. iWASH takes a holistic perspective in assessing and meeting community and household water needs through a Multiple-Use Services (MUS) approach. This approach aims to understand and address the different water use needs that face both communities and households, and the supply options for meeting these needs.

Objective 2 : Increase sustainable access to sanitation and hygiene services by poor rural and small town dwellers. iWASH partners adopt a hybrid approach—drawing on experience from Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), Participatory Hygiene and Sanitation Trans-formation (PHAST), and more market oriented approaches—to motivate and empower communities, individual households, and schools to improve their access to adequate sanita-tion and hygiene services.

Objective 3 : Increase the number and capacity of private sector entrepreneurs and busi-nesses providing WASH services. Tanzania iWASH partners facilitate and promote the es-sential role of the private sector in provision of water, sanitation, and hygiene hardware by identifying the constraints to and opportunities for effective local private sector involvement, and then working with the private sector to lessen these constraints.

Objective 4 : Increase access to sustainable financing for communities and entrepreneurs engaged in WASH services. Tanzania iWASH activities build on CARE Tanzania’s well-established Village Savings and Loans experiences in Tanzania, while promoting the con-cept of local investment in water, sanitation and hygiene, especially sanitation at the house-hold level.

Objective 5 : Increase sustainable management of watersheds and water resources quantity and quality. Tanzania iWASH is implemented in a water resource management framework, aiming to understand, conserve and sustain water resources and ecosystems upon which human populations depend.