Guiding Principles for Successful Reforms of Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Sectors
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...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2009/04/10388103/guiding-principles-successful-reforms-urban-water-supply-sanitation-sectors http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11724 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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