IPECS delivers integrated water, sanitation, and urban service solutions that improve public health outcomes, environmental sustainability, and quality of life for communities across Pakistan. The firm's WASH work supports governments and development partners in addressing water security, sanitation coverage gaps, urban service delivery deficits, and institutional sustainability, aligned with national WASH policies, SDG 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation), and international WASH best practices.
IPECS approaches WASH and urban services as multi-dimensional systems, integrating engineering design, institutional development, behaviour change communication, and governance mechanisms to ensure long-term functionality, equity, and climate resilience. The firm works across rural, peri-urban, and urban contexts, ensuring solutions are context-responsive, gender-sensitive, and scalable.
Services include water supply planning and system design; groundwater assessment, monitoring, and protection; water source sustainability and aquifer recharge planning; community-based water management model design; and institutional frameworks for equitable, sustainable water governance.
Services include sewerage and drainage system planning and design; on-site and off-site sanitation solution design; wastewater treatment and safe disposal advisory; faecal sludge management planning and institutional arrangements; and sanitation service sustainability frameworks including financial and cost-recovery mechanisms.
Services include solid waste management system diagnostics and planning; collection, transportation, and disposal system design; waste reduction, segregation, and recycling strategy development; institutional and regulatory strengthening for municipal solid waste management; and community engagement and behaviour change for improved waste practices.
Services include hygiene promotion strategy design and implementation; school and community hygiene education programmes; menstrual hygiene management frameworks and kit distribution programmes; social mobilisation and community awareness campaigns; and systematic monitoring of behaviour change outcomes and hygiene practice adoption.
Services include capacity building for municipal and line department WASH staff; O&M planning and institutional arrangements for WASH systems; community institution formation and strengthening; financial and cost-recovery mechanism design; and service delivery accountability and performance monitoring systems.
Services include integrated urban WASH service assessments and diagnostics; infrastructure-service alignment and coordination planning; urban resilience and climate-smart WASH planning; informal settlement WASH service upgrading advisory; and digital monitoring and performance tracking for urban service delivery.
| Impact indicator | Achievement |
|---|---|
| Water supply schemes designed | 650 schemes across 13 Sindh districts under World Bank/DFID MSAN - World Bank, DFID |
| Drainage and sewerage schemes designed | 400 schemes across 13 Sindh districts - World Bank, DFID |
| School WASH interventions designed | 2,600 interventions across 13 Sindh districts - World Bank, DFID MSAN |
| Villages assessed for WASH | 5,200 villages across 13 Sindh districts under World Bank Saaf Suthro Sindh Programme - World Bank |
| School WASH facilities rehabilitated | 489 government primary schools across Dadu and Naushahro Feroze under UNICEF - UNICEF |
| Solar-powered WASH systems | Designed and supervised for informal settlements in Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas under KOICA - KOICA |
| Sewerage schemes identified for rehabilitation | 500 to 600 existing schemes across 13 Sindh districts - World Bank, DFID |
| Community WASH institutions formed and trained | Hundreds of Village Development Committees, WASH Committees, and O&M Committees - World Bank, UNICEF, USAID |
650 schemes across 13 Sindh districts under World Bank/DFID MSAN - World Bank, DFID
400 schemes across 13 Sindh districts - World Bank, DFID
2,600 interventions across 13 Sindh districts - World Bank, DFID MSAN
5,200 villages across 13 Sindh districts under World Bank Saaf Suthro Sindh Programme - World Bank
489 government primary schools across Dadu and Naushahro Feroze under UNICEF - UNICEF
Designed and supervised for informal settlements in Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas under KOICA - KOICA
500 to 600 existing schemes across 13 Sindh districts - World Bank, DFID
Hundreds of Village Development Committees, WASH Committees, and O&M Committees - World Bank, UNICEF, USAID
PKR 420+ million
