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	BPD @ Stockholm 2007 BPD at Stockholm BPD attended Stockholm World Water Week 2007 in order to participate in the high-level policy debate that takes place at this annual event. This year BPD shared an exhibition stand with WaterAid and Freshwater Action Network and ran an half-day discussion event (see below). This built on BPD's successful debut last year at Stockholm at which it ran a very well-received event on sanitation partnerships, in conjunction with WSSCC and IWA. BPD Discussion BPD ran an event that explored two topics: pro-poor regulation and partnership accountability: Pro-poor Regulation In African cities well over half the people do not get their water straight from the utility. The situation is similar in Asia and Latin America. Fewer still have sewer connections. How useful to the poor then are regulations that focus on formal customers of the utility? Could these actually be an obstacle to progress? Where do informal providers fit in? BPD hosted a free-flowing debate on whether regulation should play a more proactive role in partnerships providing water to the poor. BPD background material: Pro-poor Regulation in East Africa Role of Independent Informal Providers 6-page Practitioner Note on Access through innovation: Expanding water services through independent network entrepreneurs (435 KB) 6-page Practitioner Note on Trends and themes in pro-poor regulation (433 KB) Drowning in Accountability Are water and sanitation partnerships losing their ability to innovate? Some multi-stakeholder partnerships spend a lot of time on getting their own governance right. Others are less attentive. This discussion explored how resource and risk allocation in multi-stakeholder partnerships can be fit for purpose. Can partnerships create accountable structures for internal co-ordination and external legitimacy that still allow for flexibility and innovation? BPD background material: 4-page Practitioner Note on Partnership Accountability Unpacking the Concept (245 KB) The Partnership Paperchase: Structuring Partnership Agreements in Water and Sanitation in Low-Income Communities		Credit: WaterAid Other sessions of interest WaterAid side event Ensuring Local Government Finance for Water & Sanitation WaterAid key note presentation: International Targets & National Implementation [workshop] Afternoon seminar (UN-Habitat and SIWI together with UNDP, WSP, IIED and the Lake Victoria South Water Services Board) Practical approaches to pro-poor water and sanitation governance IWA side event (with SEI and Swedish Water House) Sanitation 21 – Let’s do planning and Design Better Sanitation debate (co-convenors: SIDA, SIWI, SEI, the French Coordination for Water & WSSCC) The Killing Fields of Sanitation – Political Neglect