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SSP Resource: Published Work
Informal Water Vendors and the Urban Poor
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Subtitle |
Human Settlements Discussion Paper Series |
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Author |
Kjellen & Mc Granahan |
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Date |
2006 |
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Main sponsor |
IIED |
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Informal Water Vendors and the Urban Poor |
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Summary |
This paper looks at how water-vending systems operate and how effective they are in meeting the needs of the poor. It raises questions about what can be done to increase the effectiveness of water-vending systems, and whether getting vendors to provide better water services to the urban poor can make a positive contribution to the international water goals.
The paper concentrates on the small-scale and informal vendors, most of whom work independently, with very little capital. |
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Global | How Small Water Enterprises Can Contribute to the MDGS
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Subtitle |
Evidence from Dar es Salaam, Khartoum, Accra |
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Author |
McGranahan, Njiru, Albu, Smith & Mitlin |
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Date |
2006 |
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Main sponsor |
WEDC |
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Link |
How Small Water Enterprises Can Contribute to the MDGS |
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Summary |
This book is one of the outputs of a project aimed at identifying and testing out ways of improving the water services delivered to the urban poor through Small Water Enterprises (SWEs). As such, it will prove an invaluable resource for water utility managers and policymakers. The book includes accounts of fieldwork undertaken in a number of African cities: Dar es Salaam (Tanzania); Nairobi (Kenya); Khartoum (Sudan) and Accra (Ghana). Even in these cities, where dependence on SWEs is high, the services provided by these SWEs have been poorly documented until now. |
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Tanzania, Ghana, Sudan, Kenya | Access Through Innovation: Expanding Water Service Delivery Through Independent Network Providers
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Subtitle |
Considerations for practitioners and policymakers |
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Author |
Valfrey-Visser, Schaub-Jones, Collignon & Chaponnière |
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Date |
2006 |
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Main sponsor |
BPD (financed by the French Development Agency) |
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Link
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Access Through Innovation: Expanding Water Service Delivery Through Independent Network Providers |
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Summary |
This study was carried out from September 2005 to June 2006 in Ghana, Mali and Mauritania by a team of consultants coordinated by Hydroconseil. The independent operators studied in the three countries are all managers of small water supply networks in which they have invested their own funds. |
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Ghana, Mali, Mauritania | Services d'Eau en Afrique Subsaharienne
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Subtitle |
La fragmentation urbaine en question |
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Author: |
Sylvy Jaglin |
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Date |
2005 |
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Main sponsor |
LATTS |
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URL |
Published book, not available on the web |
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Summary |
Dedicated to water provision services, this book shows that recent developments in the WatSan sector may be helping to increase the availability of effective equipment in slum areas, which are often excluded from conventional services. |
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West Africa | PPP and the Poor
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Subtitle |
Small enterprises and water provision in Kibera, Nairobi |
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Author |
Katui-Katua & McGranaham |
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Date |
2002 |
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Main sponsor |
WEDC – IIED |
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Link |
PPP and the Poor |
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Summary |
This paper is a case study of how the city of Nairobi tried to enhance the role of the private sector in one of its suburbs: Kibera. |
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Kenya | Developing Inclusive Public-Private Partnerships
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Subtitle |
The role of small-scale independent providers in the delivery of water and sanitation services |
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Author |
Janelle Plummer GHK International |
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Date |
2002 |
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Main sponsor |
World Bank’s World Development Report (WDR) |
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Link
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Developing Inclusive Public-Private Partnerships |
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Summary |
This paper suggests that the conventional PPP framework should be transformed to become a more appropriate and practical vehicle for service delivery in poor contexts.
The paper firstly introduces a wider livelihoods perspective of the service needs of the poor. It looks past standard utility criteria to consider other factors that affect the way poor urban households access services. It then considers how these requirements are met by alternative forms of service delivery, juxtaposing these with the network utility service and illustrating the important role of existing small-scale independent water and sanitation providers in fulfilling the diverse requirements of the poor. The final section outlines some of the policy, legislative and institutional constraints to such change, and suggests that it is time efforts were made to resolve some of the thorny issues that have resulted in exclusive rather than inclusive partnerships. |
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Global | Impact of Market Structure on Service Options for the Poor
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Subtitle |
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Author |
David Ehrhardt |
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Date |
2000 |
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Main sponsor |
PPIAF |
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Link |
Impact of Market Structure on Service Options for the Poor |
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Summary |
This paper gives an economic point of view on the topic on public services delivery to the poor. From a market-centric view, it gives arguments for a better understanding of SSIP-related mechanisms. It particularly focuses on the consequences of subsidies and regulation. |
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Global | |
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