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    What the users think - health and water service reform in Zimbabwe

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Economic reform (Economic Structural Adjustment Programme) in Zimbabwe in the 1990s has reduced public sector spending and introduced cost sharing to social services. As part of a series of studies carried out by the School of Public Policy, Birmingham on the role of government following structural adjustment, the views of health and water users were sought.
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    Pipe dreams. Does privatised water offer poor urban neighbourhoods a better supply?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The supply of water to towns and cities in many low-income countries is in crisis One much vaunted solution is for private companies to step in. A University of Birmingham research study examined how water supply is organised in some low income countries. The study report identifies a range of supply strategies, each involving different degrees of private involvement.
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    Water and sanitation goals: is progress in the pipeline?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    In the 1980s, the world set the goal of water and sanitation for all by the end of the decade. By contrast, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are only to halve the proportions without affordable access to safe water and adequate sanitation by 2015.
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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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    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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    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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    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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    Water privatisation in Africa: how successful is it?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    In much of Africa it is now thought that only privatisation can deliver improved water supply services. Is this assumption correct and is it based on concrete evidence? Can privatisation address the chronic problem of under-investment? How have management and institutional frameworks adapted to the arrival of major international water firms?

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