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This discussion paper provides a framework for country-level discussion, setting out key considerations for countries as they undertake financial planning for efforts to meet the SDGs. This paper covers the following aspects: (i) Estimating the costs and benefits associated with the SDG targets for WASH; (ii) Using existing financial resources more effectively; (iii) Accessing new resources; and (iv) Taking action to close the SDG financing gap.
WORLD BANK UNICEF (2017): Sanitation and Water for All : How Can the Financing Gap Be Filled?. Washington: World Bank URL [Accessed: 18.04.2018] PDFThe WASH toolkit specifically focuses on setting up and integrating project monitoring and evaluation for water and sanitation projects in schools. The tool can be useful in setting up new M&E measures but also to reflect and improve on existing instruments already in place.
WATER AND SANITATION PROGRAMME (2012): WASH Toolkit. Washington: Water and Sanitation Programme URL [Accessed: 18.04.2018]This publication provides the reader a broad overview of methodologies to innovate in rural contexts. One specific focus is given to how innovation processes can be started what importance monitoring and evaluation plays. Additionally are different case studies provided that highlight innovation processes in rural settings.
PYBURN, R. WOODHILL, J. (2014): Dynamics of Rural Innovation – A primer for emerging professionals. Arnhem: LM Publishers URL [Accessed: 18.04.2018] PDFThis publication discusses different options of how sustainable water supply and sanitation services in developing can be funded and makes propositions how the existing funding gap can be met. Different financial frameworks are explored and presented.
GOKU, A. TRÉMOLET, S. KOLKERR, J. KINGDOM, B. Easing the Transition to Commercial Finance for Sustainable Water and Sanitation. Washington, DC: World Bank URL [Accessed: 18.04.2018] PDFThis essay explores a major ethical variable in personal sales: trust. By analyzing data drawn from life insurance sales, the essay supports the thesis that the role of the agent and the exigencies of personal sales create certain antinomies of trust that compromise the sales process.
OAKES, G. (1990): The sales process and the paradoxes of trust. In: Journal of Business Ethics: Volume 9 , 671-679. URL [Accessed: 16.04.2018]The authors discuss innovation in the context of ‘awareness’ and information available to customers. Flexible informational awareness accounts for both perceptions within the same overall innovation strategy is researched. A simple theoretical setup that yields an intuitive and tractable visualization - in the form of thought bubbles - for the process of innovation is proposed.
GOORHA, P. ; POTTS, J. (2016): Awareness in innovators: from ‘outside the box’ to ‘inside the bubble’. In: Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research: Volume 6 URL [Accessed: 16.04.2018] PDF