World Bank2013-03-122013-03-122012https://hdl.handle.net/10986/12651The 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.en-USCC BY 3.0 IGOABSORPTION CAPACITYABSORPTIVE CAPACITYACCESS TO DRINKING WATERACCESS TO SAFE WATERACCESS TO WATERADMINISTRATIVE CAPACITYAUTONOMOUS WATER SUPPLYBASIC SERVICESBASIC WATER SUPPLYCAPACITY BUILDINGCENTRAL GOVERNMENTCITIESCIVIL SOCIETYCOMMUNITY WATERCOST RECOVERYDECISION MAKERSDEVELOPMENT OF WATER SUPPLYDISTRIBUTION NETWORKSDRILLING RIGSDRINKING WATEREQUITABLE DISTRIBUTIONEXPANSION OF WATER SUPPLYFINANCIAL VIABILITYGROUND WATERHOUSEHOLD CONNECTIONSHOUSEHOLD SANITATIONHOUSEHOLDSHUMAN CAPITALHYGIENEHYGIENE EDUCATIONINVESTMENT PLANNINGINVESTMENT PROGRAMINVESTMENT REQUIREMENTSLATRINELATRINE CONSTRUCTIONLATRINESLOCAL AUTHORITIESLOCAL COMMUNITIESLOCAL STAKEHOLDERSLOCAL WATERMUNICIPAL AUTHORITIESNATIONAL UTILITYNATIONAL WATERNATIONAL WATER POLICYOPERATIONAL COSTSOPERATIONAL PERFORMANCEPIPED WATERPOPULATION GROWTHPROVINCIAL WATERPROVINCIAL WATER SUPPLYPUBLIC COMPANYPUBLIC HEALTHPUBLIC WATERPUBLIC WATER SUPPLYPUBLIC WORKSQUALITY STANDARDSREHABILITATION OF WATERROADSRUNNING WATERRURAL COMMUNITIESRURAL POPULATIONRURAL SANITATIONRURAL WATERRURAL WATER SUPPLYSANITATION ACCESSSANITATION COMMITTEESANITATION COMPONENTSANITATION COVERAGESANITATION INVESTMENTSANITATION PROGRAMSANITATION SECTORSANITATION SERVICESSCHOOLSSERVICE DELIVERYSERVICE PROVISIONSUPPLY WATERSURFACE WATERSUSTAINABLE SERVICESSUSTAINABLE USETOWNSURBAN AREASURBAN CENTERSURBAN COMMUNITIESURBAN POORURBAN PROJECTSURBAN SANITATIONURBAN SECTORURBAN WATERURBAN WATER SECTORURBAN WATER SUPPLYURBAN WATER SUPPLY COVERAGEURBANIZATIONUSE OF WATERUSER FEESUTILITIESWASTEWATERWATER BILLSWATER INFRASTRUCTUREWATER LAWWATER NETWORKSWATER POINTSWATER POLICYWATER QUALITYWATER RESOURCEWATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENTWATER RESOURCESWATER SCHEMESWATER SECTORWATER SERVICEWATER SERVICE DELIVERYWATER SERVICESWATER SUPPLIESWATER SUPPLYWATER SUPPLY SERVICEWATER SUPPLY SERVICESWATER SUPPLY SYSTEMSWATER SYSTEMSWATER USERSWATER UTILITYWorld Bank10.1596/12651