| Title | Strengthening capacity in strategic financial planning for the water supply and sanitation sector in Lesotho : final report |
| Publication Type | Research Report |
| Year of Publication | 2010 |
| Authors | PEMConsult -Copenhagen, DK, People Environment Management Consult, LS, TConsultant |
| Pagination | iv, viii, 57 p. : 22 fig.; 16 tab. |
| Date Published | 2010-02-01 |
| Publisher | PEMConsult, People, Environment, Management Consult |
| Place Published | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Keywords | capacity building, financial management, lesotho, planning, sdiman, WASHCost, water supply, water supply charges |
| Abstract | The Ministry of Natural Resources and its office of the Commissioner for Water in partnership with the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning and other stakeholders have launched an initiative to strengthen the strategic financial planning in the water sector. This initiative is supported by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and European Union Water Initiative/ Finance Working Group. At the same time these efforts will contribute to global efforts to develop generic tools for strategic financial planning by testing tools such as FEASIBLE and will also test paradigms for country specific tools. The existing facilities and the targets combined with overall macro-economic forecast leads to an expenditure forecast. The sources of potential finance and the rules governing public transfers and user charges and the overall macro-economic context/forecast lead to a projection of available finance. The difference between the expenditure forecast and the available finance results in a financing gap (or surplus) which can be managed by changing the “variables” within the demand side and supply side. This iterative process will allow different scenarios to be developed and provide an evidence based policy decision support. [authors abstract] |
| Notes | CD-ROM includes the inception report; baseline, affordability and development options report; strategic financial planning report; capacity development and integration report; progress reports 1 - 11; FEASIBLE Model data, SFPM, UCET, data analysis files; Lesotho water secor documents; and the final report |
| Custom 1 | 302, 302.0 |
| Citation Key | 68398 |
