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Sectoral Institutional Framework Projects
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 | Colombia: The development objectives of the Cartagena Water Supply, Sewerage and Environmental Management Project are to expand the water supply and sanitation coverage in the city, and improve the sector services, particularly those of the city's poor neighborhoods. The Feature Story on Local Solutions Improve Water Supply and Sanitation Services in Colombia is about the transparent, performance-linked budget transfers from the central government to municipalities. |  | Senegal: The overall objectives of the Water Sector Project are to address: 1) sustainability, by improving management, pricing, and cost recovery and reducing the Government subsidy for industrial, domestic, and irrigation water; 2) poverty alleviation and health, by increasing access to safe potable water and adequate and more affordable sanitation for the urban poor. The Feature Story on Urban Water Sector Reform in Senegal stresses that the Water Sector Project resulted in significantly better services and financial health for the sector. |  | Albania: The Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) of the Albanian water sector reform informed the approach of Municipal Water and Wastewater Project, which implements the decentralization and water sector reforms as part of the National Strategy for Socio-Economic Development (Albania’s PRSP). A presentation describes the structure and methodology developed to carry out the PSIA and discusses policy implications and possible reforms options that enriches the policy dialogue. |  | Philippines: The World Bank Local Government Unit Urban Water and Sanitation Project is financing water supply and sanitation investments in municipalities which are willing to borrow with their own resources as collateral. A consequence of the project has been that municipal councils have been obliged to set tariffs that recover both capital and operating costs and consistent with the provision of services that residents want and are willing to pay for. |
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