by Polly Markandya | Jul 15, 2011
This Topic Brief focuses on a delegated management model developed in Kumasi (Ghana), where a WSUP-facilitated partnership between the water utility, the Metropolitan Assembly and a community management committee is starting to play a key role in expanding the...
by Polly Markandya | Jun 15, 2011
Reducing non-revenue water (NRW) is a common development goal for water utilities, but does it help the poor? In Antananarivo, Madagascar, reducing NRW losses is helping the utility JIRAMA to free up water resources that are being used to supply low-income...
by Polly Markandya | May 15, 2011
Climate change is happening, and the urban poor are extremely vulnerable to its impacts. Demand for water and sanitation services in low-income urban areas is likely to increase, while flooding and water shortages may become more frequent. This Practice Note outlines...
by Polly Markandya | Feb 17, 2011
In the Madagascan capital Antananarivo (Tana), community groups are using revenues from water kiosks and other local sources to finance a drainage canal cleaning programme, critical to public health. This practice note argues that the Tana experience may provide a...
by Polly Markandya | Feb 17, 2011
This Practice Note examines the financing of communal toilets in Maputo, Mozambique, carried out in conjunction with municipal level capacity building and citywide sanitation planning. It argues that in high density, low income communities, communal toilets serving...
