Under the implementation of LVWATSAN, UN-HABITAT seeks to address:

• Innovation: faster delivery mechanisms have been introduced to more quickly achieve targets. Alternative financing mechanisms are explored to enable the poor to benefit from the interventions as well as technical and management innovations
• Community Involvement: partnership is promoted between all levels of civil society as well as both private and public sectors. Involving the community as partners and not just a casual observer to ensure that the interventions are community responsive, community-owned and socially inclusive 
• Pilot Initiatives are monitored carefully and documented to support scaling up and replication in other towns;
• Rehabilitation: where water supply and sanitation systems exist, rehabilitation will form the basis to any expansion programme;
• Private Sector Participation: the potential for the private sector to become involved in the delivery of water supply and sanitation services is being explored and tested, such as small-scale independent service providers;
• Sustainability: is fundamental to the programme, engendering ownership and building awareness are the two basic building blocks for sustainability, both within the community and local public sector. Pro-poor pricing policies and structures as well as targeted subsidies will be employed to ensure the poor can benefit from the interventions at an affordable basis;
• Results-Based: adopting a results based implementation approach will introduce a measure of real effectiveness; 
• Monitoring and Evaluation will be a common theme to all activities and components, yielding results that can be independently audited;
• Collaboration/Cooperation: in addition to partnering with the East African Community, a dialogue for cooperation has been opened with the African Development Bank, the European Investment Bank, and a number of bilateral agencies and non-profit organizations.