Decree No. 7/2017 approving the Statutes of the Water and Sanitation Fund (FASA).

This Decree approves the Statute of the Water and Sanitation Fund (FASA). This Statute, consisting of 45 articles divided into seven Chapters, establishes composition, duties and responsibilities of the above mentioned Fund, as a public institute integrated in the State Indirect Administration, whose function is to support political, legislative and institutional reform in the water and sanitation sector. It also establishes a regulatory mechanisms through the financing of studies, projects and works that promote the expansion and improvement of water supply and sanitation services and institutional strengthening of the organizations that intervene in the sector, encourage the implementation of good governance and the sustainable environmental sustainability, with an emphasis on transparency and accountability, in order to make water and sanitation projects attractive to the most diverse funding and donor agencies, to provide financial and technical support for the transformation and strengthening of service operators public water and sanitation to ensure investments to improve the quality of existing water and sanitation infrastructure, to support measures to universalize public water and sanitation services, which categorize the actions, studies and investments that the FASA can finance.