Dear Eswatini,

You have done something few nations have done: you turned back an epidemic. The World Health Organization reports that 94 percent of adults living with HIV in Eswatini know their status, 97 percent of them are on treatment, and 96 percent of those on treatment have suppressed the virus, meeting the 95-95-95 targets a decade ahead of 2030. Health service coverage now stands at 72 on the World Health Organization index, among the highest in Africa.

Seven in ten hectares of your land are farmed, and three in four of you live in the countryside. The World Bank is financing water and sanitation, grid reinforcement and access, early childhood and basic education, and a stronger health system. None of those operations is aimed directly at the livelihoods of rural households, which is where a decent life is still out of reach.

The work ahead is plain, and it is worth saying plainly. Only thirty-eight in every hundred of you drink safely managed water at home. Sixty-two in every hundred of you cannot always count on enough good food. Fifty-eight in every hundred of you lived below $4.20 a day at the last count, in 2016. Water sets your Coverage today, at 38.2 out of 100, with food and income close behind. Each of them is within your reach.

The method that worked for HIV can work for income: a clear target, a count of every person, and finance tied to reaching them. Land, water and power are already in place.

Now imagine that same resolve turned toward every home in the country. Picture Perfect Eswatini: a morning when every family cooks with clean fuel and sits down to a full table; when every tap runs clean and every home has a safe toilet; when every child walks to a school where a teacher is waiting, and reads with ease by the age of ten; when every mother lives within reach of a clinic with the lights on, and every young person finds work that pays. And no Swazi falls below a decent life, because the nation has decided that none will.

“You proved that a small nation can reach everyone with care. Now reach everyone with a livelihood.”

So this is an invitation. Bring your vision, your story and your solutions to the Perfect Eswatini ReDesign Studio, and join the Co-designers who are already imagining what comes next. Perfect Eswatini will not be designed for you. It will be designed by you.