After decades of civil war, the Basic Services Fund (BSF), with DFID as lead donor, was a majorcontributor to the reconstruction efforts of the Government of South Sudan to develop its basic services.Between 2006 and 2012, 29 NGOs received grants for WASH projects mostly for drilling orrehabilitating hand-pump boreholes. Over 6 years, 578 new hand-pump boreholes were drilled. Boreholefunctionality is however a major challenge in South Sudan: The National Water Policy states that only30-50 % of the boreholes are functional at any time. To quantify the real outcomes of the BSF and assessthe impact of the sustainability-focused monitoring of the BSF Secretariat, a status review was conductedon all drilling activities carried out since 2006, one of the components being to execute a functionalityassessment of all BSF boreholes. This article describes the conceptual framework, the methodology aswell as the main results of the assessment.
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