The Economics of Sanitation Initiative
(ESI) is a multi-country study launched in 2007 as a
response by the World Bank's Water and Sanitation
Program to address major...
Type: Water & Sanitation Discussion PaperReport#: 79549Date: June 1, 2013
In Pakistan, the deterioration of the
environment continues to harm livelihoods and health,
increasing the vulnerability of the nation's poor. It
has long been clear...
Type: Water & Sanitation Discussion PaperReport#: 77839Date: May 28, 2013
Taking an integrated approach to the
country's rural water supply issues, Government of
India's (GoI's) National Rural Drinking Water
Program (NRDWP) focusses on the...
Type: Water & Sanitation Discussion PaperReport#: 77837Date: February 15, 2013Author:
Kacker,Suneetha Dasappa
Water Sanitation coverage in Bangladesh
has significantly improved in the last couple of years but
research outputs or reports and experience of water and
sanitation...
Type: Water & Sanitation Discussion PaperReport#: 79550Date: November 1, 2012Author:
Hassan, Shareful ;
Ahmed, Rokeya
The national rating for cities has been
launched by the Government of India to achieve the goals of
the National Urban Sanitation Policy (NUSP) which aims at
making...
Type: Water & Sanitation Discussion PaperReport#: 77835Date: January 1, 2011
The primary objective of this report is
to provide brief, relevant, and practical tools for World
Bank task teams and their country counterparts to facilitate
their...
Type: Water & Sanitation Discussion PaperReport#: 68700Date: December 22, 2010
The study presented in this report aims
to increase our understanding of the global distribution of
treaty and River Basin Organization (RBO) mechanisms that
may confer...
Type: Water & Sanitation Discussion PaperReport#: 56051Date: May 1, 2010Author:
Dinar,Shlomi ;
Duncan, James ;
Stahl, Kerstin ;
De Stefano,Lucia ;
Strzepek,Kenneth ;
Wolf,Aaron T.
The study presented in this report aims
to increase our understanding of the global distribution of
treaty and River Basin Organization (RBO) mechanisms that
may confer...
Type: Water & Sanitation Discussion PaperReport#: 56051Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Dinar,Shlomi ;
Duncan, James ;
Stahl, Kerstin ;
De Stefano,Lucia ;
Strzepek,Kenneth ;
Wolf,Aaron T.
The Western and Central Africa has one
of the longest experiences with public-private partnerships
(PPPs) in the developing world, both for water supply and
for combined...
Type: Water & Sanitation Discussion PaperReport#: 48730Date: June 1, 2009Author:
Locussol,Alain R. ;
Fall,Matar ;
Marin,Philippe ;
Verspyck,Richard
This volume reports the main findings
from a multi-country research project that was designed to
develop a better understanding of how rural water supply
systems are...
Type: Water & Sanitation Discussion PaperReport#: 48731Date: June 1, 2009Author:
Bakalian, Alexander ;
Wakeman, Wendy ;
Locussol, Alain ;
Verspyck, Richard
The Western and Central Africa has one
of the longest experiences with public-private partnerships
(PPPs) in the developing world, both for water supply and
for combined...
Type: Water & Sanitation Discussion PaperReport#: 48730Date: June 1, 2009Author:
Fall,Matar ;
Locussol,Alain R. ;
Marin,Philippe ;
Verspyck,Richard
The overall goal of this report is to
assist water resources and environment professionals within
the Bank and client countries to use Strategic environmental
assessment...
Type: Water & Sanitation Discussion PaperReport#: 48729Date: April 1, 2009Author:
Hirji, Rafik; Davis, Richard;
The report begins with definitions of
watersheds and watershed management, a characterization of
the problem of watershed degradation, and a short history of
watershed...
Type: Water & Sanitation Discussion PaperReport#: 44222Date: May 1, 2008Author:
Darghouth, Salah; Ward, Christopher; Gambarelli,
The objective of this paper is to
identify the possible role and opportunities for the private
sector to participate with governments and farmers in
developing and managing...
Type: Water & Sanitation Discussion PaperReport#: 43100Date: May 1, 2007Author:
Darghouth, Salah;
This paper discusses the regulation of
water and sanitation services in urban areas. Specifically,
it explores ways of thinking about regulatory design as part
of a...
Type: Water & Sanitation Discussion PaperReport#: 39911Date: April 1, 2007Author:
Ehrhardt,David ;
Groom,Eric Ian ;
Halpern,Jonathan D. ;
O'Connor, Seini
This study explains that one of the
major issues affecting water utilities in the developing
world is the considerable difference between the amount of
water put into...
Type: Water & Sanitation Discussion PaperReport#: 39405Date: December 1, 2006Author:
Kingdom, Bill ;
Liemberger, Roland ;
Marin, Philippe
The need for reform in urban water and
sanitation service delivery is urgent. Countries are making
moves to achieve reforms, bringing in changes to the way
they manage...
Type: Water & Sanitation Discussion PaperReport#: 38681Date: October 1, 2006Author:
Gunatilake, Herath ;
Pattanayak, Subhrendu ;
Yang, Jui-Chen ;
Van Den Berg,Caroline
The Explanatory Notes on Key Topics in
the Regulation of Water and Sanitation Services provide a
consistent set of principles and practices that respond to
these questions....
Type: Water & Sanitation Discussion PaperReport#: 37529Date: June 1, 2006Author:
Ehrhardt,David ;
Groom,Eric Ian ;
Halpern,Jonathan D.
In 2002, Peru embarked on a process of
decentralization and regionalization, which, if it was to be
successful, was going to need the support and collaboration
of all...
Type: Water & Sanitation Discussion PaperReport#: 35672Date: February 1, 2006
There has been no hard empirical
evidence to confirm or reject the hypothesis that water
subsidies may be failing to reach the poor. This paper
summarizes the results...
Type: Water & Sanitation Discussion PaperReport#: 34961Date: January 1, 2006
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