MACS Sector Advisory assists governments in a variety of sector reform processes. The objective is to improve regulation and develop sustainable financing structures for infrastructure investment.
MACS combine comprehensive feasibility studies, extensive stakeholder communication and strategic vision with IWA benchmarking-standards to create the foundation for sustainable investments.
We have delivered sector advice to water utilities in Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Tanzania and Yemen.
As well as helping with specific infrastructure investment, MACS also assist in strengthening institutions. We provide advice on institutional structures and management, and enable efficient and transparent decision-making.
These processes can be supported by Belle™ – a state of the art management information system for water utility management. The core module combines commercial information with technical data to ease the evaluation of performance indicators and to speed up decision making. The tool is adaptable to the individual utility, local needs and languages. We have delivered Belle™ to water utilities in Armenia, Georgia and Montenegro.
Reducing leakages is essential to achieving sustainable water supply services.
MACS assist utilities in drawing up IWA water balances, which provide the basis for improved decision-making and efficient network management.
MACS have developed WaterSMART™, as an easy to use professional solution to aid the planning of water network improvement measures for non-engineers. And MACS’ Change Management Index (CMI) supports the planning and management of organizational development and transition, with a particular focus on reducing NRW.
MACS have successfully implemented NRW-reduction measures for water utilities in Brazil and Georgia. And we have provided advice on NRW optimization to water providers in Costa Rica, Peru and Ukraine.
Our main tool for small and decentralized rural water supply and waste water systems is SISAR™ (Sistema Integrado de Saneamento Rural). This model integrates small water supply systems into a cross-subsidy scheme. It enables local user groups to achieve participatory and sustainable water management, and run their systems without external support.
MACS have implemented innovative systems based on the SISAR™ model in Brazil, and advised water utilities in India, Nepal and Moldova on the implementation of community-based systems.
