Gwanda RDC water infrastructure
An EPC partnership with Connect Water on a rural water supply programme, structured with climate and community co-benefits.
The brief
Rural water supply in Matabeleland South is a climate adaptation problem before it is an infrastructure problem. Gwanda Rural District Council needed delivery capacity and a structure that could attract support on climate and community grounds.
What we did
Terra Verde entered an EPC arrangement with Connect Water for the delivery of the water supply programme, with the climate and sustainability case built alongside the engineering.
- Structured the programme's climate rationale: adaptation benefit, water security and resilience indicators.
- Documented community co-benefits in a form usable by funders and development partners.
- Supported the council in presenting the programme to potential financing parties.
Why it matters
Infrastructure that cannot articulate its climate case competes for a smaller pool of money. Building the sustainability case alongside the engineering is not a reporting exercise — it is part of how the project gets financed.
More detail will be published as the programme advances.