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Guiding Principles for Successful Reforms of Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Sectors
dc.contributor.author | Locussol, Alain R. | |
dc.contributor.author | Fall, Matar | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-08-13T15:50:38Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-08-13T15:50:38Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009-04 | |
dc.description.abstract | The note proposes a methodology for assessing the accountability framework of an urban water supply and sanitation (WSS) sector that it defines as the set of actors, mandates, contractual arrangements between actors, and instruments used by actors to implement their mandates. The accountability framework focuses on the five key functions of the urban WSS sector that are policy formulation, asset management and infrastructure development, service provision, financing, and regulation of the service. The note recommends that particular attention be paid to incentives, either productive or counterproductive, that could influence the performance of the WSS service. It also suggests identifying vested interests likely to be affected by reforms, with a focus on those engaged in fraud and corruption, as they could actively lobby against reforms which, if successfully implemented, would affect their revenues. The note focuses primarily on the provision of official piped WSS service, but it also recognizes that when a central service provides limited coverage or poor performance it can forfeit its monopoly status, whereupon alternatives to the piped WSS service often play an important role. The note also stresses the need for identifying weak links of the accountability framework as they could encourage fraud or corruption. The note finally summarizes best practice for setting WSS tariff levels and structures and for designing subsidies that reach those who need them. | en |
dc.identifier | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2009/04/10388103/guiding-principles-successful-reforms-urban-water-supply-sanitation-sectors | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11724 | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.publisher | World Bank, Washington, DC | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Water P-Notes; No. 31 | |
dc.rights | CC BY 3.0 IGO | |
dc.rights.holder | World Bank | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ | |
dc.subject | ABUSE | |
dc.subject | ACCESS TO DRINKING WATER | |
dc.subject | ACCESS TO SAFE DRINKING WATER | |
dc.subject | ACCESS TO WATER SUPPLY | |
dc.subject | ACCOUNTABILITY | |
dc.subject | ASSET MANAGEMENT | |
dc.subject | ASSETS | |
dc.subject | BASIC SANITATION | |
dc.subject | BEST PRACTICE | |
dc.subject | BEST PRACTICES | |
dc.subject | BOARDS OF DIRECTORS | |
dc.subject | CAPITAL COSTS | |
dc.subject | CAPITAL MARKETS | |
dc.subject | CENTRAL GOVERNMENT | |
dc.subject | COLLECTION PROCEDURES | |
dc.subject | COMMERCIAL OPERATIONS | |
dc.subject | CORRUPTION | |
dc.subject | COST RECOVERY | |
dc.subject | CUSTOMER RELATIONS | |
dc.subject | DEPRECIATION | |
dc.subject | DIAGNOSTIC ANALYSIS | |
dc.subject | EFFLUENT QUALITY | |
dc.subject | ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION | |
dc.subject | EXPANSION | |
dc.subject | FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT | |
dc.subject | FRAUD | |
dc.subject | INDIVIDUAL CONNECTIONS | |
dc.subject | INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT | |
dc.subject | INTERNATIONAL BENCHMARKING | |
dc.subject | MONOPOLY | |
dc.subject | PERFORMANCE AGREEMENT | |
dc.subject | PRICING POLICIES | |
dc.subject | PRIVATE OPERATOR | |
dc.subject | PRIVATE OPERATORS | |
dc.subject | PROCUREMENT | |
dc.subject | PUBLIC FUNDS | |
dc.subject | PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS | |
dc.subject | REGULATION BY CONTRACT | |
dc.subject | SANITATION UTILITIES | |
dc.subject | SERVICE PROVIDER | |
dc.subject | SERVICE PROVIDERS | |
dc.subject | SERVICE PROVISION | |
dc.subject | SERVICE STANDARDS | |
dc.subject | TARIFF SETTING | |
dc.subject | URBAN AREAS | |
dc.subject | URBAN WATER | |
dc.subject | URBAN WATER SUPPLY | |
dc.subject | WASTE WATER | |
dc.subject | WATER BEING | |
dc.subject | WATER COLLECTION | |
dc.subject | WATER PRODUCTION | |
dc.subject | WATER RESOURCE | |
dc.subject | WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT | |
dc.subject | WATER SECTOR | |
dc.subject | WATER SUPPLIES | |
dc.subject | WATER USERS | |
dc.title | Guiding Principles for Successful Reforms of Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Sectors | en |
dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
okr.doctype | Publications & Research :: Brief | |
okr.doctype | Publications & Research | |
okr.docurl | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2009/04/10388103/guiding-principles-successful-reforms-urban-water-supply-sanitation-sectors | |
okr.globalpractice | Transport and ICT | |
okr.globalpractice | Governance | |
okr.globalpractice | Water | |
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum | 000333038_20090327023237 | |
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum | 10388103 | |
okr.identifier.report | 47930 | |
okr.language.supported | en | |
okr.pdfurl | http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2009/03/27/000333038_20090327023237/Rendered/PDF/479300BRI0PNOT10Box338868B01PUBLIC1.pdf | en |
okr.topic | Infrastructure Economics and Finance :: Private Participation in Infrastructure | |
okr.topic | Water Supply and Sanitation :: Water Supply and Sanitation Governance and Institutions | |
okr.topic | Water Supply and Sanitation :: Town Water Supply and Sanitation | |
okr.topic | Infrastructure Economics and Finance :: Infrastructure Regulation | |
okr.topic | Public Sector Corruption and Anticorruption Measures | |
okr.topic | Public Sector Development | |
okr.unit | Water Unit (ETWWA) | |
okr.volume | 1 of 1 |
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