Publication: Reforming Urban Water Utilities in Western and Central Africa : Experiences with Public-Private Partnerships, Volume 2. Case Studies
Date
2009-06
ISSN
Published
2009-06
Author(s)
Fall, Matar
Marin, Philippe
Locussol, Alain
Verspyck, Richard
Abstract
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 power and water supply utilities. Cote
d'Ivoire has a successful partnership dating from 1959,
and over the last two decades as many as 15 countries (out
of 23 in the region) have experimented with PPPs: eight for
water supply operations alone and seven for combined power
and water supply operations. This discussion paper documents
the region's experience with PPPs for urban water
supply in a comprehensive manner to help inform the current
debate about the benefits brought by PPPs, in the context of
helping Africa to achieve the Millennium Development Goals
(MDG). Eleven PPPs have been studied, and detailed
performance indicators are reported for six large cases -
Cote d'Ivoire, Senegal, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, and
Gabon, with at least four years of private operation.
Through its successes and failures, the Western and Central
African experience offers interesting lessons that other
developing countries could reflect upon as they strive to
improve the quality of urban water supply services, increase
the efficiency of operations, and establish the financial
credibility of the sector.
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Citation
“Fall, Matar; Marin, Philippe; Locussol, Alain; Verspyck, Richard. 2009. Reforming Urban Water Utilities in Western and Central Africa : Experiences with Public-Private Partnerships, Volume 2. Case Studies. Water Sector Board discussion paper series;no. 13. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17245 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”