Publication: Water Supply and Sanitation in the Democratic Republic of Congo : Turning Finance into Services for 2015 and Beyond
Date
2012
ISSN
Published
2012
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
The African Ministers' Council on
Water (AMCOW) commissioned the production of a second round
of Country Status Overviews (CSOs) to better understand what
underpins progress in water supply and sanitation and what
its member governments can do to accelerate that progress
across countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). AMCOW
delegated this task to the World Bank's Water and
Sanitation Program and the African Development Bank who are
implementing it in close partnership with United Nations
Children's Fund (UNICEF) and World Health Organization
(WHO) in over 30 countries across SSA. This CSO2 report has
been produced in collaboration with the Government of the
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and other
stakeholders during 2009-10. The analysis aims to help
countries assess their own service delivery pathways for
turning finance into water supply and sanitation services in
each of four subsectors: rural and urban water supply, and
rural and urban sanitation and hygiene. The CSO2 analysis
has three main components: i) a review of past coverage; ii)
a costing model to assess the adequacy of future
investments; and iii) a scorecard which allows diagnosis of
particular bottlenecks along the service delivery pathway.
The CSO2's contribution is to answer not only whether
past trends and future finance are sufficient to meet sector
targets, but what specific issues need to be addressed to
ensure finance is effectively turned into accelerated
coverage expansion in water supply and sanitation. In this
spirit, specific priority actions have been identified
through consultation with government and other sector
stakeholders. A regional synthesis report, available
separately, presents best practice and shared learning to
help realize these priority actions.
Citation
“World Bank. 2012. Water Supply and Sanitation in the Democratic Republic of Congo : Turning Finance into Services for 2015 and Beyond. © World Bank, Nairobi. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/92abfe78-9218-53bb-8ce1-3fcd7058b0df License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”