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  Making public-private community partnerships work for Asia’s urban poor

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  The public sector has failed to bring safe water and sanitation to Asia’s quarter billion poor urban residents. Is it time to examine alternatives to state delivery? What needs to be done to strengthen private sector participation in equitable, efficient and sustainable water, sanitation and solid waste services?
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  ‘Pro-poor’ water privatisation: ideology confounded in Bolivia?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Private sector involvement in water management is dubbed ‘pro-poor’ by donors and lenders. Is there evidence to support claims that concessions designed to generate international investment in financially- strapped public water companies are increasing the speed of network expansion to poor communities? What lessons can be learnt from concessions that have failed?
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  Private sector participation in water supply: too fast, too soon?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Is water privatisation being over-promoted? Is private sector participation (PSP) in its current forms likely to promote the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals to provide the poor with reliable, affordable and sustainable, safe drinking water? How do members of poor communities affected by the process judge PSP? 
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  A review of good practice in ICT and special educational needs for Africa

  Imfundo, 2003

  The aim of this study is to investigate how good practice and experiences from the global use of Assistive Technology (AT) can be shared with African governments and people working in the sector.The study focuses on the use of ICT to support Special Educational Needs (SEN) in Africa with particular reference to special schools, teacher education and inclusive educational programmes.
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  Diverting the flow: a resource guide to gender, rights and water privatization

  Women's Environment and Development Organization, 2003

  This resource guide examines the impact that the privatisation of goods and services such as water has on the livelihoods of women, particularly poor women.Section one presents extracts from a variety of sources that highlight the critical issues related to water privatisation and women, including: water as a human right public versus private goods gender roles and inequities
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  Not giving a damn: private financiers and dam displacement

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  During the last fifty years, between 30 and 80 million people have lost their homes and livelihoods through dam construction. In the wake of fiscal crises and changing donor priorities governments are turning to the private sector to finance dam projects. New research warns that those displaced by dams could suffer even more as a result.
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  Urban poverty and water management in Mexico

  Global Development Network, 2001

  Water is essential for survival, yet the majority of the urban poor population in Mexico lives without access to water services. Lack of water has become a source of conflicts in poor urban areas.
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  Public-private community partnerships in management and delivery of water to urban poor: the case of Metro Manila

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2001

  Since the privatization of Manila’s water supply and sanitation services, different forms and levels of partnerships have emerged to provide basic services to the poor. How well do these partnerships work? Have they increased access to water for the urban poor? This paper examines public-private partnerships in the management and delivery of water to the urban poor in Metro Manila.
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  Village information centres: harnessing local knowledge via interactive media

  MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, 2003

  This document presents recommendations for policy makers in India and at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) drawn from a workshop that took place on 8-9 October, 2003 in Chennai, India.
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  Uzbekistan energy sector: issues, analysis, and an agenda for reform

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper analyses the energy sector in Uzbekistan and presents a detailed proposal for its reform. It argues that Uzbekistan’s considerable endowment with primary energy resources has led to a subsidisation of energy that has brought about many weaknesses.

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