This is a five-year US$113.4 million project (IDA financing US$57.4 million) designed to support institutional development and capacity building for a large sector investment program by the Government of Angola (GOA). The project will support building government capacity to invest in and regulate water supply and water resources management and will help to create and build the capacity of commercially-oriented public water supply and sanitation companies in nine cities. The project will help to implement government policies of utilizing the private sector and cost-recovery measures in water supply. In addition, the project will finance the rehabilitation of existing water supply networks in nine cities, which will complement investments in production and treatment being financed by the Emergency Multi-sector Recovery Program, the Governments of China and Brazil and other development partners. The water Resources Management Component includes support to the development and implementation of a basin management plan for the Okavango River.