The Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Program in Tanzania aims to provide sustainable safe water supply and sanitation facilities, based on management responsibility and ownership by the users, within easy reach of 69 % of the rural population by the year 2010. The program will cover rural areas in all districts of Tanzania. The program will ensure that an additional 6.5 million rural people have access to safe water by 2010 and that 90% of rural Tanzanians have sustained sanitation facilities. The program will have the following components: 1. District Management Support; 2. Construction of Rural Water Supply & Sanitation facilities; and 3. Institutional Strengthening & Development. The total cost of the project is UA 223 million/US$ 334.5 million. The ADF loan is UA 45 million/US$ and the ADF grant portion is UA 10 million/US$ 15 million. Additional funds will come from: IDA: UA 51 million/US$ 76.5 million Netherlands: UA 27 million/US$ 40.5 million FRG: UA 16 million/US$ 24 million Other Development Partners: UA 44 million/US$ 66 million Communities: UA 7 million/US$ 10.5 million Government of Tanzania: UA 23 million/US$ 34.5 million The project was approved on 13 September 2006. The project is expected to start sometime January 2007 and will last for 4 years.