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    Microfinance for water supply services

    Water and Environmental Health at London and Loughborough, 2006
    Microfinance provides the poor with an opportunity to access or finance water supply and sanitation activities.
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    Privatisation model for water enterprise in Kenya

    Institute of World Affairs ,, 2006
    The world over, the role and eligibility of the state in the provision of water supply is increasingly coming into question. Policy makers and analysts are advocating the abdication of the state in favour of private participation. Kenya is one of the developing countries that have endeavoured to privatise their water sectors.
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    Room for manoeuvre: tenure and the urban poor in India

    World Bank Publications, 2003
    This paper examines the economic, social and political processes embedded in the interconnected relationships between tenants and landlords and the workings of informal institutional frameworks that underpin the production, exchange and consumption of rental housing in India.
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    Urban livelihoods in Afghanistan

    Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2006
    Poor urban households in Afghanistan are excluded from the most basic services and are forced to live day-to-day on unreliable income flows in often health-threatening environments.
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    Urban renewal: at whose cost?

    Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2007
    This brief article examines the draft housing policy of Maharashtra in India.
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    Cities on the brink: urban poverty in the 21st century

    CARE International, 2006
    In 2007 the world will tip from being predominantly rural to predominantly urban.
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    Urban poverty office projects: operation and maintenance

    Water and Environmental Health at London and Loughborough, 1998
    Enhancing a city's operation and maintenance (O&M) system engenders local ownership and gives people a stake in service provision. This executive summary reviews the outcomes of an O&M situation analysis in the city of Cuttack, India.
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    Urban slum water supply, Dkhaka, Bangladesh

    Water and Environmental Health at London and Loughborough, 1999
    Local NGOs have the astute ability to navigate their way through red tape and power struggles that hinder project implementation. This paper demonstrates that collaboration with local NGOs is a real asset for project success.
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    Local financing mechanisms for water supply in Kenya

    Water and Environmental Health at London and Loughborough, 2006
    Access to financial resources to develop water supply services in Kenya is limited. Only a few international development agencies are familiar with innovative financing mechanisms.
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    Where the poor are: an atlas of poverty

    Center for International Earth Science Information Network, 2006
    This atlas brings together a varied collection of maps from many continents and countries, depicting small area estimates of vital development indicators in significant spatial detail, and discussing their many potential uses.The maps demonstrate a number of scenarios:the global spread of poverty is illustrated by the worldwide scale of infant mortality the global distribution of hunger

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