Improving Transparency Integrity And Accountability In Water Supply And Sanitation

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780821378670

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Improving Transparency, Integrity, and Accountability in Water Supply and Sanitation by Anonim Pdf

This volume will serve as a useful tool for those who wish to diagnose, analyze, and take action against systemic corruption in the water and sanitation sectors. On a global scale, more than 1 billion people live without access to safe, potable water, in part because of poor governance and corruption. Illegal connections and substantial losses caused by deferred maintenance have eroded the revenues of water utilities, leading to a downward spiral in performance. Embezzlement of funds, bribes for access to illegal water connections, manipulation of meter counters, and collusion in public contracts add to the litany of corrupt practices. This manual will serve as a practical guide for governments, civil society organizations, and citizens themselves in their quest for a model of service provision that responds to the pressing needs of people in the developing world.

Author : Eiman Karar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319433509

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Freshwater Governance for the 21st Century by Eiman Karar Pdf

The objective of this book is to broadly illustrate the key aspects of water governance, mapping the spectrum of decision-making from techno-centric and eco-centric approaches, to hybrid concepts and people-centric approaches. Topics covered include the challenges for water-governance models, the polycentric model, the integration challenge, water in the decision-making hierarchy, and the rise of water-sensitive design, while also taking into account interdependencies between stakeholders, as well as the issue of scale. The book’s content is presented in an integrated and comprehensive format, building on detailed case studies from around the world and the authors’ working experiences in the water sector. Combining essential insights with accessible, non-technical language, it offers a valuable resource for academics, technicians and policy-makers alike.

Author : Jorge Alejandro Silva Rodríguez de San Miguel
Publisher : 3Ciencias
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788494784866

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Rural water supply in Colombia by Jorge Alejandro Silva Rodríguez de San Miguel Pdf

Author : Bárbara A. Willaarts,Alberto Garrido,M. Ramón Llamas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781134682805

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Water for Food Security and Well-being in Latin America and the Caribbean by Bárbara A. Willaarts,Alberto Garrido,M. Ramón Llamas Pdf

This volume provides an analytical and facts-based overview on the progress achieved in water security in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region over during the last decade, and its links to regional development, food security and human well-being. Although the book takes a regional approach, covering a vast of data pertaining to most of the LAC region, some chapters focus on seven countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico and Peru). A full understanding of LAC’s trends progress requires framing this region in the global context: an ever more globalized world where LAC has an increasing geopolitical power and a growing presence in international food markets. The book’s specific objectives are: (1) exploring the improvements and links between water and food security in LAC countries; (2) assessing the role of the socio-economic ‘megatrends’ in LAC, identifying feedback processes between the region’s observed pattern of changes regarding key biophysical, economic and social variables linked to water and food security; and (3) reviewing the critical changes that are taking place in the institutional and governance water spheres, including the role of civil society, which may represent a promising means to advancing towards the goal of improving water security in LAC. The resulting picture shows a region where recent socioeconomic development has led to important advances in the domains of food and water security. Economic growth in LAC and its increasingly important role in international trade are intense in terms of use of natural resources such as land, water and energy. This poses new and important challenges for sustainable development. The reinforcement of national and global governance schemes and their alignment on the improvement of human well-being is and will remain an inescapable prerequisite to the achievement of long-lasting security. Supporting this bold idea with facts and science-based conclusions is the ultimate goal of the book.

Author : Deepti Acharya
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000442557

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Water and Public Policy in India by Deepti Acharya Pdf

This book explores the conceptual and theoretical frameworks of Right to Water and analyzes its values in the context of water policy frameworks of the union governments in India. It uses a qualitative approach and combines critical hermeneutics with critical content analysis to introduce a new water policy framework. The volume maps the complex argumentative narrations which have emerged and evolved in the idea of Right to Water and traces the various contours and the nature of water policy texts in independent India. The book argues that the idea of Right to Water has emerged, evolved and is being argued through theoretical arguments and is shaped with the help of institutional arrangements developed at the international, regional, and national levels. Finally, the book underlines that India’s national water policies drafted respectively in 1987, 2002 and 2012, are ideal but are not embracing the values and elements of Right to Water. The volume will be of critical importance to scholars and researchers of public policy, environment, especially water policy, law, and South Asian studies.

Author : Anzanilufuno Munyai
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781527545465

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Overcoming the Corruption Conundrum in Africa by Anzanilufuno Munyai Pdf

This book adopts a holistic approach to identifying what could be done to surmount the corruption conundrum in the African continent. It acknowledges the objective reality of corruption in Africa, and identifies primary solutions to the issue. The volume takes a socio-legal approach in order to reveal the nature and extent of corruption, and suggests that solutions can be found simply by interrogating how society reacts to it. In conjunction with this, the book identifies and critiques constraints in the formation of a definitive definition of corruption. As shown here, although it is critical for African states to develop anti-corruption strategies, the solution to the problem requires an understanding of the significance of political will, and how the lack thereof has led to the endurance of corruption in Africa.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264059221

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OECD Studies on Water Private Sector Participation in Water Infrastructure OECD Checklist for Public Action by OECD Pdf

Provides a coherent catalogue of policy directions, including appropriate allocation of roles, risks and responsibilities, framework conditions and contractual arrangements necessary to make the best of private sector participation in water infrastructure.

Author : Connor, Richard
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-23
Category : Energy development
ISBN : 9789231000713

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The United Nations world water development report 2015: water for a sustainable world by Connor, Richard Pdf

The United Nations World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) is hosted and led by UNESCO. WWAP brings together the work of 31 UN-Water Members as well as 37 Partners to publish the United Nations World Water Development Report (WWDR) series. Under the theme Water for Sustainable Development, the WWDR 2015 has been prepared as a contribution from UN-Water to the discussions surrounding the post-2015 framework for global sustainable development. Highlighting water's unique and often complex role in achieving various sustainable development objectives, the WWDR 2015 is addressed to policy- and decision-makers inside and outside the water community, as well as to anyone with an interest in freshwater and its many life-giving benefits. The report sets an aspirational yet achievable vision for the future of water towards 2050 by describing how water supports healthy and prosperous human communities, maintains well functioning ecosystems and ecological services, and provides a cornerstone for short and long-term economic development. It provides an overview of the challenges, issues and trends in terms of water resources, their use and water-related services like water supply and sanitation. The report also offers, in a rigorous yet accessible manner, guidance about how to address these challenges and to seize the opportunities that sound water management provides in order to achieve and maintain economic, social and environmental sustainability.

Author : Alejandro Omar Iza,Robyn Stein
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Eau
ISBN : 9782831710273

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Rule by Alejandro Omar Iza,Robyn Stein Pdf

Effective water governance capacity is the foundation of efficient management of water resources. Water governance reform processes must work towards building capacity in a cohesive and articulated approach that links national policies, laws and institutions, within an enabling environment that allows for their implementation. This guide shows how national water reform processes can deliver good water governance, by focussing on the principles and practice of reform. RULE guides managers and decision makers on a journey which provides an overview of what makes good law, policy and institutions, and the steps needed to build a coherent and fully operational water governance structure.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264118430

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OECD Studies on Water Ten Years of Water Sector Reform in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia by OECD Pdf

This report evaluates how well EECCA countries have done in ensuring people’s access to adequate water supply and sanitation services since their Economic, Finance, and Environment Ministers adopted the Almaty Guiding Principles to support such efforts in 2000.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OCDE
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Water-supply
ISBN : 9264251081

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Water Governance in Cities by OECD Pdf

Urban, demographic and climate trends are increasingly exposing cities to risks of having too little, too much and too polluted water. Facing these challenges requires robust public policies and sound governance frameworks to co-ordinate across multiple scales, authorities, and policy domains. Building on a survey of 48 cities in OECD countries and emerging economies, the report analyses key factors affecting urban water governance, discusses trends in allocating roles and responsibilities across levels of government, and assesses multi-level governance gaps in urban water management. It provides a framework for mitigating territorial and institutional fragmentation and raising the profile of water in the broader sustainable development agenda, focusing in particular on the contribution of metropolitan governance, rural-urban partnerships and stakeholder engagement.

Author : Asit K. Biswas,Cecilia Tortajada,Philippe Rohner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811066955

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Assessing Global Water Megatrends by Asit K. Biswas,Cecilia Tortajada,Philippe Rohner Pdf

This book highlights what are likely to be the future megatrends in the water sector and why and how they should be incorporated to improve water governance in the coming decades. In this first ever book on megatrends for the water sector, 22 leading world experts from different disciplines representing academia, business, government, national and international organisations discuss what the major megatrends of the future are and how they will radically change water governance in the coming decades.

Author : WWAP
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789231003097

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The United Nations world water development report 2019 by WWAP Pdf

Access to water and sanitation is internationally recognized human right. Yet more than t wo billion people lack even the most basic of services. The latest United Nations World Water Development Report, Leaving No One Behind, explores the symptoms of exclusion and investigates ways to overcome inequalities.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264292659

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OECD Studies on Water Implementing the OECD Principles on Water Governance Indicator Framework and Evolving Practices by OECD Pdf

Three years after the adoption of the OECD Water Governance Principles, this report takes stock of their use and evolving practices, and provides an indicator framework building on lessons learned from their implementation in different countries and contexts.

Author : Mohammad Heydari,Kin Keung Lai,Zhou Xiaohu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781000465877

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Corruption, Infrastructure Management and Public–Private Partnership by Mohammad Heydari,Kin Keung Lai,Zhou Xiaohu Pdf

Public–Private Partnerships (PPP or 3Ps) allow the public sector to seek alternative funding and expertise from the private sector during procurement processes. Such partnerships, if executed with due diligence, often benefit the public immensely. Unfortunately, Public–Private Partnerships can be vulnerable to corruption. This book looks at what measures we can put in place to check corruption during procurement and what good governance strategies the public sector can adopt to improve the performance of 3Ps. The book applies mathematical models to analyze 3Ps. It uses game theory to study the interaction and dynamics between the stakeholders and suggests strategies to reduce corruption risks in various 3Ps stages. The authors explain through game theory-based simulation how governments can adopt a evaluating process at the start of each procurement to weed out undesirable private partners and why the government should take a more proactive approach. Using a methodological framework rooted in mathematical models to illustrate how we can combat institutional corruption, this book is a helpful reference for anyone interested in public policymaking and public infrastructure management.