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    Water Delivery’s poor cousins: Sanitation and Hygiene in Urban Environments

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The development and delivery of sanitation services and hygiene promotion remain poor cousins to water supply, being neither ‘clean’ nor as politically useful as the delivery of water. However, they are as important in reducing preventable diseases and with the new target agreed last summer at Johannesburg, sanitation at least will hopefully become more of a development priority.
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    New roles, new rules: does private sector participation benefit the poor?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The involvement of the private sector in the provision of water and sanitation services is currently one of the more contentious development debates. The issue provokes heated discussions, from international conferences in The Hague, Bonn and Johannesburg to the city streets of Cochabamba or Manila where governments increasingly rely on the private sector involvement.
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    Pro-poor regulation of water and sanitation: the role of tri-sector partnerships

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How can governments, private sector operators and civil society organisations develop regulatory regimes that are able to ensure the sustainable delivery of water and sanitation services for the poor? How do regulatory regimes affect tri-sector partnerships? What role can partnerships play in making regulation more pro-poor?
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    Conditionality-driven privatisation of utilities: in the interests of the poor?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Does the privatisation of water and electricity relieve or exacerbate the quality of life of those on very low incomes? Are the pro-privatisers in the international financial institutions examining the links between privatisation and poverty? Does privatisation have a place in a poverty reduction strategy?
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    Changing attitudes: new pathways for civil society in urban development

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Should the state be entirely responsible for guiding urban development? Can governments engage with the market and civil society to build sustainable cities? What can be done to ensure that the wealth and development often associated with cities can be more equitably distributed?
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    Helping municipalities work with the private sector: a salutary experience from South Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Affermage contracts allow a private operator to deliver services with a greater degree of freedom than is possible with a management contract. What regulatory and institutional framework is required for this complex form of public private partnership (PPP) to fulfil its promise?
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    Providing water to the poor: Assessing private sector participation

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Can private sector participation (PSP) in the provision of water supply and sanitation services (WSS) meet essential social and environmental needs?
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    Getting municipalities ready to work with the private sector: experience from Zimbabwe

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What are the linkages between municipal management, poverty reduction and the private sector? Can service delivery be simultaneously pro-poor and for- profit? How can municipalities in developing countries learn to work with the private sector to improve water and sanitation services?
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    From subsidy to sustainability: cost recovery challenges in urban water supply

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Although water is increasingly seen as an economic good, the issue of cost recovery for water supply and sanitation is far from straightforward. Poor households are in some places reluctant or unable to pay for networked services while in others they pay far more for informally-provided water supplies.
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    Private sector participation in water and sanitation: promises and pitfalls

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The perception that governments cannot efficiently provide water and sanitation (WSS) services has led to greatly increased private sector participation (PSP). Are regulatory regimes ensuring that service providers do not exploit their customers? Can PSPs save water and make it safer? Are the poor getting basic services?

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