Publications

Sylvain Adokpo Migan with Tremolet Consulting

2015

This case study is published both in English and French languages by The World Bank Group (WBG) to document the context, approaches and results of a technical assistance project for rural water services in Benin, undertaken jointly by the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) and the International…

Phyrum Kov, Nga Kim Nguyen, Virak Chan

2015

In Cambodia, only one in three people has access to improved sanitation facilities, reflecting one of the lowest sanitation coverage rates among Southeast Asian countries. The Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) of the World Bank Group’s Water Global Practice, along with other sector partners, has…

Kevin Bender

2015

If public resources are used strategically, governments can leverage existing budgets into larger pools of financing by attracting commercial lenders to the water sector. This brief shows how governments can play an active role in identifying hurdles and creating solutions to introduce commercial…

Taibou Adamou Maiga

2015

Oumar Diallo

2015

At the request of the government of Senegal, WSP undertook a study in “levers of change in Senegal’s rural water sector”. The government strategy in rural water is to hire private operators for operations and maintenance (O&M) and bulk supply to ASUUFORs. The country is divided into three large…

Oumar Diallo

2015

Taibou Adamou Maiga

2015

Managing water supply schemes in small towns by none professionals is an issue in sub-Saharan Africa, but some countries have find their way to handle the issue by tapping into the domestic private sector participation in the service delivery and intensive capacity building. The report provides…

Oumar Diallo

2015

Senegal’s rural water sector reforms started over a decade ago. As a result, Senegal achieved in 2013 its target of reaching 82% coverage for 7.5 million rural populations. The reforms permitted the transfer of rural water supply assets to the stewardship of the private sector where the asset-…

Oumar Diallo

2015

Suneetha Dasappa Kacker, SR Ramanujam and Tracey Miller

2014

Public-Private Partnerships in Non-Traditional Markets

“Running Water in India’s Cities: A Review of Five Recent Public-Private Partnership Initiatives”, a flagship report based on a recent WSP study reviews five urban water supply projects that are being implemented in large, medium and small cities in India. All projects were awarded successfully,…

WSP & India Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation

2013

Public-Private Partnerships in Non-Traditional Markets

Sustainability of small piped water supply systems in rural areas is critical in securing improved service delivery in the long term. As a result, the thrust of Government of India’s National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) is on source and system sustainability. System sustainability…

Franz Rojas-Ortruste

2013

Building Water and Sanitation Business Models for the Poor

Many communities in Latin America do not connect to sewerage networks, relying instead on small, often family-owned companies for collection and disposal of fecal sludge. These domestic service providers play a crucial role in peri-urban sanitation; however, policy makers have largely ignored this…

Jacqueline Devine and Craig Kullmann

2013

Building Water and Sanitation Business Models for the Poor

WSP’s approach to scaling up rural sanitation combines three components — Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS), behavior change communication, and sanitation marketing — in addition to efforts to strengthen the enabling environment. Of these, sanitation marketing is a relatively new field and WSP…

Maximilian hirn

2013

Public-Private Partnerships in Non-Traditional Markets

Private sector participation (PSP) in essential services such as water supply has been intensely debated over the past decade, particularly on how to manage the balance between public and private interest in water service delivery. In Uganda, the number of small towns under the PSP model has…

Rajesh Advani, Jemima T. Sy

2012

Banking the 'Un-banked'

This credit assessment of 43 urban water service providers in Kenya aims to provide potential lenders with information about the borrowing capacity of water service providers, and provides utilities a diagnostic to identify areas for improvement.