Publication: Guidance Note : Public Expenditure Review from the Perspective of the Water and Sanitation Sector
Date
2012-06
ISSN
Published
2012-06
Author(s)
Abstract
The objective of this guidance note:
public expenditure review from the perspective of the water
supply and sanitation sector is to provide World Bank staff
with a body of knowledge and good practice guidelines to
help them evaluate the allocation of public resources to
water and sanitation services in a consistent manner and to
increase their knowledge of public expenditure issues in the
sector. This guidance note discusses the challenges that are
specific to public expenditure management in water and
sanitation and the difficulties often involved in
identifying sector expenditures. The challenges particular
to this sector stem from three factors. First, countries
define water and sanitation differently (e.g., drainage may
or may not be included, rural services may be considered
separately). Second, responsibilities for water and
sanitation policy are often divided horizontally across
government ministries and agencies, vertically between
national and local governments and functionally among the
public, private, and non-governmental sectors. Third, the
roles of these multiple actors may be unclear or overlapping.
Citation
“Manghee, Seema; van den Berg, Caroline. 2012. Guidance Note : Public Expenditure Review from the Perspective of the Water and Sanitation Sector. Water papers;. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17254 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”