This paper provides insights on domestic private sector participation (DPSP) as an effective and proven approach to address challenges in small towns’ water and sanitation services delivery. The report aims at helping national and local governments in developing countries and water professionals to better engage with the domestic private sector in the provision of sustainable water and sanitation services in rural growth areas and small towns.
NDAW, M. (2016): Private Sector Provision of Water Supply and Sanitation Services in Rural Areas and Small Towns : The Role of the Public Sector. Washington, DC: World Bank URL [Accessed: 19.06.2018] PDFLibrary
This paper highlights opportunities and unresolved issues related to the concurrent use of QMRA and LCA, such as assumptions in translating chemical and pathogen health impacts to a common metric or other mode structure and parameterisation aspects.
AMAP`s mission is to provide reliable and sufficient information on the status of, and threats to, the Arctic environment.
The PPPLab is an action research and joint learning and support initiative to learn about the relevance and effectiveness of PPPs. Starting point is the Dutch government supported public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the food and water domains in developing countries. Its mission is to extract and co-create knowledge and methodological lessons from and on PPPs that can be used to improve both implementation and policy.
WaterLex is an NGO based in Geneva, Switzerland, contributing to sustainable water governance and management through a catalytical cycle of research, knowledge training and legal products. Working as facilitator among Public Sector, Private Sector and Civil Society stakeholders. WaterLex legal database is a database on water regulations of countries around the globe.
A variety of tools for the evaluation of PPPs in the water sector applied in the Indian context. Easily adaptable for the other contexts.
ANOUJ, M. (2011): Tool Kit for Public-Private Partnerships in Urban Water Supply for the State of Maharashtra, India. Mandaluyong City: Asian Development Bank URL [Accessed: 19.06.2018]Comprehensive information and resources Human Right to Water and Sanitation.
This paper compares water and sanitation system options for a coastal community across selected sustainability metrics, including environmental impact (i.e., life cycle eutrophication potential, energy consumption, and global warming potential), equivalent annual cost, and local human health impact.
The GreenFacts Initiative is a non-profit project with an independent Scientific Board and a non-advocacy policy. Its mission is to bring complex scientific consensus reports on health and the environment to the reach of non-specialists. GreenFacts publishes clear, faithful, and verified summaries of existing scientific reports on health, the environment and sustainable development.
This paper explores the current status of the adoption and sustained use of HWTS and the critical factors that influence adoption and sustained use of it, including the Enabling Environment.
MURCOTT (2006): Implementation, Critical Factors and Challenges to Scale-Up of Household Drinking Water Treatment and Safe Storage Systems. URL [Accessed: 18.06.2018]The Technology Applicability Framework (TAF) is a decision support tool on the applicability, scalability and sustainability of a specific Water, Sanitation or Hygiene (WASH) technology to provide lasting services in a specific context and on the readiness for its introduction.
https://technologyapplicability.wordpress.com/ [Accessed: 18.06.2018]This synthesis report documents the implementation process, results and lessons learned under a three-year Technical Assistance programme undertaken by the Water and Sanitation Program of the World Bank’s Water Global Practice (WSP) in Cambodia between May 2013 and June 2016. The publication presents in addition recommendations for the government on key steps to accelerate service delivery at scale for Rural Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene.
WORLD BANK GROUP (EDITOR) (2017): Reducing Inequalities in Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene in the Era of the Sustainable Development Goals : Synthesis Report of the WASH Poverty Diagnostic Initiative. URL [Accessed: 18.06.2018]