Government and private sector water services to rural populations in PICs are limited and likely to remain so. Consequently, community water management (CWM) will remain the dominant model for rural water service delivery into the future, as reflected in many Pacific government WASH policies. However, evidence from the Pacific and elsewhere indicated that basic models of CWM, in which communities bear full responsibility to manage water systems after their installation, typically have low sustainability (Clarke et.al., 2014; Bond et.al., 2014; Hutchings et al., 2015; World Bank, 2017). This leads to poor WASH outcomes, such as inadequate accessibility, quality, and reliability of water and compromised hygiene practices.