Please find below a list of BNWP publications that are available online. If you have problems downloading publications, would like to request hardcopies, or have any other questions, please contact bnwp@worldbank.org. Publications are grouped under the following headings: Water Supply and Sanitation in Rural Areas and Small Towns Taking Sustainable Rural Water Supply Services to Scale: A Discussion Paper (1.28mb pdf). December 2002. The authors identify four broad categories of constraints to scaling up in rural water supply and sanitation (WSS): insufficient resources, lack of knowledge/shared understanding, resistance, and untested implementation conditions. Drawing on relevant literature and empirical data from a limited number of cases, they offer some preliminary thoughts on these bottlenecks and suggest an agenda for research that can yield guidelines for more scalable project design.
--(Related BNWP Activity: 026)-- Rural Water Supply, Sanitation and Budget Support—Guidelines for Task Teams. (1.34mb pdf). September 2005. This document is designed to give pointers on how to engage in budget support operations. It also discusses the steps required to ready a national rural water supply and sanitation program for inclusion in the national budget, and hence budget support operations. It is designed to be used as a reference for task teams engaged in developing an operation and covers budget support building blocks.
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Reform of Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Getting the Assumptions Right: Private Sector Participation (PSP) Transaction Design and the Poor in Southwest Sri Lanka. The study shows that many of the standard assumptions that are used for PSP arrangements do not accord with consumer preferences. It also demonstrates that poor and nonpoor consumers have different preferences and perceptions. --( Related BNWP Project: 005)--Private Sector Participation in Water Supply and Sanitation Services in Sub-Saharan Africa—Summary Proceedings and Outline for a Roadmap. Vol. 1 (401kb pdf), Vol. 2(1.34mb pdf). February 2002. The first volume summarizes the discussions of the 2002 Decision Makers' Workshop , and the second is a compendium of all the presentations made during the workshop. The goal of the roadmap produced by event participants is to contribute to better water supply and sanitation services by improving quality and accelerating the pace of reform through learning and exchanges. --(Related BNWP Activity: 015)--Characteristics of Well Performing Public Water Utilities(1043k pdf). May 2006. Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Board Working Note, Paper No. 9. This report focuses on attributes of well run public utilities and identifies important factors that influence their performance. It proposes a framework of assessing public utility governance: accountability, autonomy, customer orientation and market orientation. The report aims to provide a better understanding of how the external environment influences the performance of public sector utilities in developing countries. --(Related BNWP Project: 033)-- Models of Aggregation for Water and Sanitation Provision (1040k pdf). January 2005. Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Board Working Note, Paper No. 1. This study investigates issues related to the aggregation of small and medium-size towns for the provision of WSS services. “Aggregation” is defined as the grouping of several municipalities into a single administrative structure for the provision of a particular service.--(Related BNWP Project: 043)-- Approaches to Private Participation in Water Services (1.54mb pdf). 2006. This toolkit is addressed to governments—municipal, provincial, and central—whose strategy for improving water services includes using the private sector, and aims to help them design arrangements that lead to better services and greater access. It sets out the big issues they must grapple with, describes their main options, and offers a view on the advantages and disadvantages of those options.
--(Related BNWP Activity: 059)-- The Explanatory Notes on Key Topics in the Regulation of Water and Sanitation Services(1.06mb pdf). June 2006. The notes provide an integrated view of regulatory functions and the principles and practice underlying the design of regulatory systems in the WSS sector. They also outline a framework for designing economic regulation and how to choose organizations and instruments. The Explanatory Notes discuss regulating both private operators and government-owned utilities. One of the Notes specifically discusses regulating wastewater services.
--(Related BNWP Project: 090)-- Taking Account of the Poor in Water Sector Regulation(1.10mb pdf). August 2006. Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Board Working Note, Paper No. 11. This note seeks to provide practical guidance on how regulatory frameworks can be designed and implemented in a way that is more conducive to expanding access and improving service to poor customers.
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Development of Sustainable Financing Systems - Water, Electricity and the Poor: Who Benefits from Utility Subsidies? (2.22mb pdf). November 2005. This publication brings empirical evidence on subsidy performance across a wide range of countries. It documents the prevalence of consumer subsidies, provides a typology of the many variants found in the developing world, and presents a number of indicators useful in assessing the degree to which such subsidies benefit the poor. The publication is also available in Spanish (3.07 mb pdf).
--(Related BNWP Activity: 055)-- - The Distributional Incidence of Residential Water and Electricity Subsidies. (0.35mb pdf). April 2006. This paper examines the extent to which the poor benefit from consumption and connection subsidies for water supply and electricity services. The authors’ analysis reveals that the most common form of utility subsidy—quantity-based subsidies delivered through the tariff structure—are highly regressive.
--(Related BNWP Activity: 055)-- - Financing Water Supply and Sanitation Investments: Utilizing Risk Mitigation Instruments to Bridge the Financing Gap (787k pdf). January 2005. Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Board Discussion Paper Series, Paper No. 4. A comparative review of risk mitigation instruments offered by international financial institutions shows that although these instruments have provided risk mitigation for power, telecom, and transport investments, they are rarely used in the WSS sector. This paper looks at the ways in which to better connect WSS sector investments with financial markets, including adaptation of risk instruments, "hybrid" finance transactions and the development of local financial markets.
--(Related BNWP Project: 080)-- - Assessment of Resource Flows in the Water Supply and Sanitation Sector. Ethiopia Case Study (270k pdf). January 2005. Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Board Working Note, Paper No. 2. This case study reports on the work undertaken to collect data for the the Ethiopia 2003 Public Expenditure Review. It presents a picture of the funding for the Ethiopian WSS sector and was the first attempt to consolidate all expenditures for this sector. The case study demonstrates how lack of data hampers the capacity of the authorities in Ethiopia to plan for WSS services.
--(Related BNWP Activity: 061)-- - Pro-Poor Subsidies for Water Connections in West Africa: A Preliminary Study (521k pdf). January 2005. Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Board Working Note, Paper No. 4. This paper is an executive summary of Working Note No. 3, above. Its objective is to examine how well the schemes in West Africa for making social and ordinary connections are working. Study tasks included (a) examining the institutions, policies, and procedures for providing subsidized connections; (b) evaluating how well the schemes meet their objectives; and (c) identifying negative outcomes.
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Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion - Sanitation and Hygiene at the World Bank: An Analysis of Current Activities (203k pdf). Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Board Working Note, Paper No. 6, November 2005. This report reviews the current World Bank portfolio in sanitation and hygiene. It looks particularly closely at the degree to which the Bank’s activities support the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of halving the fraction of the world’s population without access to basic sanitation by 2015, and the constraints to increasing support to that aim.
--(Related BNWP Activity: 089)-- - The Handwashing Handbook: A Guide for Developing a Hygiene Promotion Program to Increase Handwashing with Soap (1650k pdf). November 2005. This handbook, which also comes in French and Spanish, shows how state-of-the art marketing techniques can be used to change people’s behavior. It is based on over three years of successful large-scale programs in Ghana, Madagascar, Nepal, Peru, and Senegal. The approach in this book raises awareness, enhances political commitment and resource allocation for hygiene.
--(Related BNWP Project: 008)-- - The Experience of Condominial Water and Sewerage Systems in Brazil: Case Studies from Brasilia, Salvador, and Parauapebas (2.37mb pdf). August 2005. This study presents the experience of applying the condominial approach to expand water and sewerage networks in three contrasting Brazilian cities. It is based on the findings of a Study Tour to Brazil organized in December 2003 for utility managers and
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Capacity Building All the projects and activities funded by the Partnership included capacity-building and dissemination events. - Water Supply and Sanitation Services in Small Towns and Multi-Village Schemes. Proceedings of the Addis Ababa International Conference. Vol. 1 (440kb pdf) / Vol. 2 (10mb pdf). June 2002. This publication aims to i) share global experience, build a community of interested professionals, and start a knowledge network focused on small town water supply and sanitation, ii) review and enrich our understanding of the ingredients for success in small town water supply and sanitation, and iii) better understand the needs of small towns for professional support and the options to access the required financial and technical expertise
-- (Related BNWP Activity: 021)-- - Characteristics of Well Performing Public Water Utilities(1043k pdf). May 2006. Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Board Working Note, Paper No. 9. This report focuses on attributes of well run public utilities and identifies important factors that influence their performance. It proposes a framework of assessing public utility governance: accountability, autonomy, customer orientation and market orientation. The report aims to provide a better understanding of how the external environment influences the performance of public sector utilities in developing countries.
--(Related BNWP Project: 033)-- - Findings Note: Africa - Private Sector Participation-based Roadmap for Reforms in Water and Sanitation. (44kb pdf). December 2002. This report emphasizes that PSP-based reforms have generally succeeded in extending and improving services and have in all cases restored a measure of financial viability to systems long starved of the necessary resource to support
minimum operation and maintenance (O&M). There are also cases where the drive for reform has faltered, got sidetracked or was abandoned altogether.
--(Related BNWP Activity: 015) -- - The Experience of Condominial Water and Sewerage System in Brazil (2.37mb pdf). August 2005.The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the diversity of experience within Brazil in the application of the condominial model andto document the results to date. This is done by examiningthree case studies chosen because of their contrasting urban contexts and the substantial differences in the way the condominial model was applied. The three cases presented are Brasilia, Salvador and Parauapebas.
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