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In October 1999, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved the Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project to sustain improvements in environmental health and the quality of life for the urban communities in small towns. The Executing Agency was the Department of Housing and Urban Planning (DHUP) of... Read more...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has adopted twinning as part of its Water Operators' Partnership (WOPs) Program. The WOPs program promotes knowledge sharing and builds the capacity of water operators and utilities in the Asia and the Pacific region. Among its key initiatives is the twinning of 20... Read more...
A project supported by the Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (GPOBA) is piloting a project providing safe drinking water to 12,500 poor households in 25 villages in three coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh: Guntur, Krishna, and West Godavari. Read more...
To improve customer service, Sri Lanka's National Water Supply and Drainage Board (NWSDB) introduced a customer charter and quality circles. Read more...
This paper highlights the importance of issues of local government accountability to citizens, analyses how changes in accountability mechanisms have been accomplished in a specific case, and examines the policy implications. The analysis is based on the case of the city of Gedaref, in Sudan. Read more...
Better accountability improves service delivery performance. Based on more than twenty-five case studies in over twelve countries, this paper describes the attempts of SNV Netherlands Development Organisation to strengthen the accountability capacity of citizens, government and service providers. Read more...
Tien Giang Province's small towns, deemed unserviceable by major water utilities, found a permanent solution to their big water problem in small piped water networks. Read more...
A paper commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, summarises critical water and sanitation sector reform implementation issues by drawing from recent experience in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. It was written by a group of policy advisors of the... Read more...
The city of Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu, India shows a way out of the sanitation crisis. The Tiruchirappalli model of community-managed toilets with bathing and washing facilities is an example of a partnership between sensitive city authorities, communities and NGOs, working together to address... Read more...
When things are going smoothly, why would someone bother to innovate? Where do ideas for innovations come from? How come some succeed but many do not leave the drawing board or the pilot stage? Read more...
A working paper from the ODI outlines water development policy in the 1990s. Read more...
Many a water utility has been overwhelmed by the prospect of developing a capacity building and institutional strengthening program (CBISP). Where do they start? Which aspects are negotiable and which ones aren't? Read more...
A study by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) shows that private sector participation (PSP), has not shown encouraging results in the water supply and sanitation (WSS) sector. Read more...
Despite a general trend to higher numbers of projects being rated successful or better over the past few years, about 30% of ADB's project portfolio of the Asian Devlopment Bank (ADB) is still rated less than successful during the evaluation phase. Read more...
Key lessons for up-scaling and out-scaling of DFID research Read more...
By the late 1990s, 97 percent of the rural population in Bangladesh had access to an improved water supply. However, the water in many places was contaminated by arsenic causing major risks to health. The government and NGOs have responded by installing alternative water supplies but these... Read more...
A field note by the Water and Sanitation Program - South Asia (WSP-SA) documents the evolution of three large, river-based schemes in Aliparamba Gram Panchayat near Kozhikode in the north of Kerala state, India. Read more...
Elsa D. Mejia is General Manager of the Inpart Waterworks and Development Company (IWADCO), a family enterprise that started as a small construction company specializing in the production of water tanks for small towns and municipalities in and around Metro Manila, Philippines. She discusses her... Read more...
A study by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) reviewed the extent to which the five Paris Principles (PPs) on Aid Effectiveness (AE) as set out in the Paris Declaration (PD) on AE: ownership, alignment, harmonisation, managing for results and mutual accountability, are being applied in the... Read more...
A summary of the evaluation report of Water for Recovery and Peace Program (WRAPP) in Southern Sudan. Read more...