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Serving the Poor: Reports & Documents
- The Interface between Regulatory Frameworks and Partnership
The emphasis of the report is twofold: to see how the local regulatory framework shapes the actions of the partners, and to see what, if anything, partnerships can offer to regulatory bodies. The study also looks at how partnerships could better understand how the regulatory regime affects the delivery of services to the poor, how they could take this into account when designing their activities and what pro-active steps they could take.
- Making Innovation Work through Partnerships in Water and Sanitation Projects
The report aims to determine whether innovative approaches are an effective mechanism for serving the poor and whether tri-sector partnerships facilitate the implementation of these approaches. Those selected for study ranged from condominial water supply and sewerage systems, community-managed standposts and pre-payment meters, to alternative billing, payment and collection methods tailored to the needs of the poor. The study did indeed find that the multi-sector partnership played an important role in each project - providing an environment that fosters innovation and the resources needed to maximise the potential of new approaches.
- Education and Awareness in Partnership
Participants from all three sectors and from all 8 focus projects attended the Education and Awareness in Partnership Workshop (held 9-11 May). The principle aims of the workshop were to explore how E&A works in partnership, to identify and understand approaches that have been successful and those that have not, and to understand how the partnership facilitates (or inhibits) these different approaches.
- Cost Recovery in Partnerships
Achieving financial sustainability is an increasingly important goal in water and sanitation projects around the world. This stems from a growing recognition that water is an economic good and that the benefits of projects are likely to be short-lived if the projects are unable to recover costs. The BPD conducted a study into how each of the focus projects addresses the challenge of cost recovery and serving the poor in partnership. This report brings cost recovery challenges, goals and strategies to light, and to identify where there are lessons to be learned from the diverse and rich experience within the BPD. (42 pages including appendices)
- Tri-Sector Partnerships Beyond Those of Participating Groups in the BPD Cluster
Commissioned by the Cluster, this document provides the findings of a review of tri-sector partnership experience in water and sanitation projects beyond those of groups currently working with the BPD Water and Sanitation Cluster. Having surveyed over 70 organisations worldwide, few examples of truly tri-sector arrangements were encountered, but those that were found are reviewed in this study (in Angola, the Philippines and Argentina). The study also reviews those networks (partnership-related or otherwise) in which these projects participate. Further information on tri-sector partnership projects would be welcomed by the Cluster.
- Flexibility by Design Full Report
(Flexibility by Design Executive Summary)
A multi-disciplinary team of experts engaged in municipal capacity building, corporate social responsibility, NGO-private sector relations, domestic water and partnership spheres assembled to draw out partnership ssons stemming from actual focus project experience. Their analysis was based on the Clusters internal Partnership Analysis Reports which for each focus project document the context, formation process, partnership structures, individual and mutual goals and incentives, evolution and institutionalisation, impacts and key lessons. The team considered what we know about when and how tri-sector partnerships are effective at: 1) providing water and sanitation to the poor? & 2) building systems in which the poor have a sustainable voice? This exciting study presents their findings. (36 pages including appendices)
- Emerging Models for Developing Water Systems for the Rural Poor: From Contracts to Co-Production
A review of the South Africa BoTT project, an innovative experiment in creating a multi-sectoral consortium to speed delivery and transfer of rural water and sanitation systems. The study documents the BoTT experiment (a BPD focus project) through a partnership lens, analysing the approachs strengths and weaknesses, from which general lessons can be drawn about how to structure and manage tri-sector partnerships. (34 pages including appendices) |
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