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Maintenance (O&M) framework for rural areas, initially by promoting applications for gazetting of new District Water Boards focused on rural water O&M.  \nIn recent government meetings it was suggested that applications should be accompanied by business plans which outline the case for financial viability of the Area Service Providers (ASPs) procured by the Water Boards, alongside the finance required to support their management by Water Boards and District Water Offices and MWE Regional Centers.  \nWhave offered to provide information useful for these business plans on ASP and other costs, based on its research in recent years into 24/7 assurance of hand-pump functionality. The MWE Regional Center team-leader asked for this to be provided as a template for the Water Board applications in 40 districts where roll-out is ongoing, including the 16 districts Whave is supporting and the 15 districts Water for People are supporting, and others.  \nThe Regional Center team-leader suggested that it would be useful as a basis with varied applications reflecting different numbers of hand-pumps in the different districts and different service fees set by the district councils. This document presents a template which is flexible to varying conditions.  \nWhave is committed to supporting MWE, District Local Governments (DLGs) and the WASH stakeholder community in rolling out the O&M Framework nationally and developing a viable rural water structure. Funding to Whave from Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, Morpho and Siemens Stiftung, has focused on this collective process. Whave’s research on feasibility and cost of 24/7 functionality assurance for hand-pump-dependent communities (our “pilot ASP” role) has provided a key evidence base for this template business plan.  \nWhave is now principally acting as a support consultancy and Technical Assistance organization for roll-out of the O&M Framework and for rural water structuring, assisting MWE Regional Centers and DLGs in rural water gazetting, assisting the new Water Boards, and training/mentoring new ASPs. Our initial focus is in 17 districts in regions 2, 3, 4,5 ; however we are available to the MWE Regional Centers and roll-out entities in other districts and regions.  \nAre ASPs servicing hand-pumps, viable entities?  \nThe cost of providing service to small rural communities using hand-pumps is not well known. Whave has “action-researched” this cost in four regions of Uganda in more than 1,000 communities in 10 districts, with emphasis on preventive maintenance and ensuring all breakdowns are repaired by-the-end-of the-next-day, in other words, 24/7 service delivery. The number of communities serviced per district has averaged 100 (always in all sub-counties and always working with HPMAs) which represented only 10 to 15% of all handpumps, therefore we suffered from poor economy of scale. The overall finding has been that cost on average, at low economy of scale, is 1.8 million UGX, and we can confidently predict it reduces to 1 million UGX once a whole district is serviced, at much better economy of scale. A community of 50 families sharing a hand-pump can collect more than 1 million UGX in service revenue, if the average payment is 2 ,000 up to 3,000 UGX per month; these are generally accepted as affordable fee levels.  \nThe overall conclusion therefore is that hand-pump ASPs can achieve breakeven financing, recovering cost from fee revenue.  \nThe viability of hand-pump ASPs does have other challenges. 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