Providing sustainable water supply and sanitation (WSS) services in developing countries remains an immense, and increasingly urgent, challenge. Chapter two sets out how the sector is currently funded...
This study provides information on alternative approaches for the financing of household sanitation in situ, in six countries: Bangladesh, Ecuador, India, Mozambique, Senegal, and Vietnam. This information...
Small-scale providers of infrastructure services, are proving to be more responsive than utilities, to needs of poor consumers. They might be delivering water services by tanker, transport services by...
Privatization of infrastructure services is often followed by stricter enforcement of quality standards, which raises costs, maintaining, or worsening the exclusion of the poor. The poor would get easier...
In many developing countries, the regulation of infrastructure service standards is rigid, and makes services too expensive for the poor. The current wave of liberalization of infrastructure, is an opportunity...