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Health, Nutrition & Population Discussion
Paper Water,
Sanitation and Hygiene: Interventions and Diarrhoea
- A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis by
Lorna Fewtrell and John Colford. July 2004.
Operational
Guidance for World Bank Group Staff Public and
Private Sector Roles in Water Supply and Sanitation
Services. This Note provides guidance to World
Bank Group staff on assessing the suitability
of available options for public-private roles
in the provision and financing of water supply
and sanitation, and the main considerations in
choosing among these options. It cautions against
one-size-fits-all prescriptions, recognizing the
variations in circumstances among developing countries.
The note links the various public-private options
with appropriate World Bank Group instruments,
including project-specific, sector-wide, and broader
interventions. April 2004.
Scaling Up Poverty Reduction: A Global Learning
Process, and Conference in Shanghai, May 25-27,
2004. Case
Studies on Access to Water
The new World Bank report, Independent
Water Entrepreneurs in Latin America - The
other private sector in water services, offers
a first overview of small scale independent providers
in six Latin American countries: Argentina, Bolivia,
Colombia, Guatemala, Paraguay and Peru.
The
World Bank Group’s Program for Water Supply
and Sanitation. The World Bank Group's Water
Supply and Sanitation Sector Board has outlined
a Strategy for assisting it's clients accelerate
progress towards the objective of “efficient sustainable
water supply and sanitation services for all”.
The "Program for Water Supply and Sanitation"
summarizes key elements of the Strategy for an
internal and external audience.
Innovative Contracts,
Sound Relationships: Urban Water Sector Reform
in Senegal (325K PDF). Clarissa Brocklehurst
and Jan G. Janssens.
Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Board Discussion
Paper Series, Paper No. 1, January 2004
Can the Principles
of Franchising be used to Improve Water Supply
and Sanitation Services? – A Preliminary
Analysis (1,5M PDF) . Meike van Ginneken,
Ross Tyler and David Tagg.
Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Board Discussion
Paper Series, Paper No. 2, January 2004
Water
Supply and Sanitation for Small Towns and Multi-village
Schemes . Proceedings of the International
Conference Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, June 11-15,
2002.
Health
in Your Hands: Lessons from Building Public-Private
Partnerships for Washing Hands with Soap.
After a year and a half, public-private partnerships
for handwashing with soap are in place in Ghana
and Kerala, and full-scale handwash promotion
programs have been designed. This document outlines
the approach that was taken and offers lessons.
Meeting
the Financing Challenge for Water Supply and Sanitation.
The paper reviews and synthesizes ideas of innovative
financing in the water and sanitation sector,
emphasizes the critical importance of mechanisms
that (1) promote and support sound policies and
reform (2) leverage more domestic resources from
providers, users, and local governments and (3)
help to improve the use of subsidies for the poor.
Water
Resources Sector Strategy: An Overview 24
page version of the Water Resource Management
Sector Strategy
Environment
Matters, 2003. This year Environmental Matters
focuses on Water.
The World Bank launched the "Water
- A Priority for Responsible Growth and Poverty
Reduction: An Agenda for Investment and Policy
Change" document on March 17, 2003 at
the World Water Forum in Japan. In this new position
paper, the World Bank reemphasizes the importance
of water as a key driver of growth and poverty
reduction, calling to developed and developing
countries to work together to increase the investments
in water in poor nations and achieve better results
on the ground.
Environment
Strategy Note No. 8, by Anthony Bigio and
Bharat Dahiya, reviews the Bank's urban environment
project portfolio with special focus on the contributions
of the Bank's various sectors and on the achievement
of the urban environmental targets set forth in
the MDGs. December, 2003
Efficient,
Sustainable Service for All? An OED Review
of the World Bank’s Assistance to Water Supply
and Sanitation, 2003
Best
Practices, Reduction of Unaccounted for Water,
The Job Can Be Done!
Guillermo Yepes, World Bank, Water & Sanitation
Division, 1995
Contracting
for public services: output-based aid and its
applications (2001)
A new book published by the World Bank’s Private Sector Advisory Services outlines an innovative approach to delivering development assistance for public basic services such as potable water, safe sanitation, rural roads, modern energy, and primary education and healthcare. Called output-based aid, the approach delegates service delivery to the non-profit or for profit private sector under contracts that tie payments to the outputs or results actually delivered to target beneficiaries. The book gathers cases of innovative, output-based approaches from across the infrastructure and social sectors, and also provides a checklist for designing and implementing output-based schemes.
Benchmarking Water & Sanitation Utilities: A Start-Up Kit (PDF)
William Kingdom, World Bank Water & Sanitation
Division, 1999
Bidding for Private Concessions: The Use of World Bank Guarantees(PDF)
Project Finance and Guarantees Department, RMC
Discussion Paper Series No. 120, January 1998
Water & Wastewater Utilities, Indicators 2nd Edition (PDF)
Guillermo Yepes, Augusta Dianderas, World Bank, Water Supply & Sanitation Division, 1996.
Water Supply & Sanitation Blue Pages (PDF)
Water & Sanitation Division, The World Bank, 2000.
Provides a snapshot of World Bank activities in the water and sanitation sector.
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