The clarity of vision of pro-poor PPP is a challenging issue. While in principle the IPG programme seemed clear about what the pro-poor PPP was intended for, there was a limited understanding/experience of the operational aspects needed to accomplish such a programme. The above can be understood from the experience that the people involved were more familiar with the usual pro-poor programme that is carried out in a way in which the poor appear mainly as recipients in a specific project or programme set up to assist them. For example, the dominant idea in the community is that the standpipe belongs to the government and there is less a notion of it belonging to the community. Another dominant idea is about non-payment of water services, entrenched in the community as a result of a policy environment that, since the independence, promotes the right to free water.
However a first step towards conceptualization of pro-poor PPP's has been made in this project, in which the municipality has supported and enabled individual persons to operate as business entities at neighborhood level.