Publication: Water Supply and Sanitation in South Africa : Turning Finance into Services for 2015 and Beyond
Date
2011
ISSN
Published
2011
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 understands
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 which
are implementing it in close partnership with UNICEF and
World Health Organization (WHO) in over 30 countries across
SSA. This CSO2 report has been produced in collaboration
with the Government of South Africa 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: a review of past coverage; a costing model to
assess the adequacy of future investments; and 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 in water supply and sanitation. In
this spirit, specific priority actions have been identified
through consultation. A synthesis report, available
separately, presents best practice and shared learning to
help realize these priority actions.
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Citation
“World Bank. 2011. Water Supply and Sanitation in South Africa : Turning Finance into Services for 2015 and Beyond. An AMCOW country status overview;. © Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17752 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”