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Time |
Activity |
Target Audience |
Outcome |
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April 2002
|
International high-level stakeholder dialogue: Sustainable water management – priorities for policy frameworks and best practices |
High-level participants |
Needs assessment: water governance is key
(pdf, 232 KB) |
|
Q1/Q2 2003 |
Preliminary studies on available governance instruments for private sector participation in water supply and sanitation |
Project partners (internal documents) |
Scoping: Existing supportive instruments are rare or perceived as biased: participatory development approach needed |
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March 2003 |
Presentation during the Third World Water Forum in Kyoto. |
Water experts, civil society organisations, political and private actors. |
Scoping: verification of proposal on the international level |
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May 2003
|
Launch of two workstreams: one to develop a policy document in a Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue and a parallel workstream to gather expert input for an operational document. |
Project partners
|
Project setup in a formal partnership between SDC, seco and Swiss Re
|
|
Summer 2003 |
Stakeholder interviews for the policy document, case study analysis for the operational instrument. |
Key stakeholders with experience in Public-Private Partnerships resp. available literature
|
Development: Draft content |
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October 2003
|
Multi-Stakeholder and Expert Workshop: Parallel workshops to develop preliminary content and discuss the further development process in a core group of stakeholders respectively experts. |
Stakeholder representatives and experts from private sector companies; NGOs; governments, trade unions; UN organizations; financing institutions; public authorities; donors |
Development: Content input & need for close integration of political and practical instruments |
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December 2003
- August 2004
|
Platform discussions on existing platforms to reach specific audiences. |
WASH: Sanitation experts
WEF: Financing institutes, businesses
WB Water Week: Worldbank Experts
CSD-13: Governments
BPD: Mixed Stakeholders
Stockholm Water Week: Experts |
Development: Content and development process discussion
|
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April 2004
|
Sketches of the instruments publicly available for review and commenting. |
Contributors and discussion partners of earlier stages. |
Development: Content feedback and start of verification
|
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August 2004 - December 2004
|
Regional dialogues and backtesting: stakeholder dialogues and expert input on draft instruments. |
Mozambique, Bolivia, Peru, Bulgaria, South Africa, Morocco, Senegal |
Verification: Adaptability of the instruments to local context
|
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January - March 2005
|
Synthesis of received input: Production of "version 1" instruments |
(Project internal) |
Development: Consistency and links between the instruments |
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April 2005
|
Version 1 of instruments publicly released
|
PPP stakeholders, public utilities, governments evaluating PPP as a development option etc.
|
Dissemination:
Public access to full range of instruments
(download page) |
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May 2005
|
Translations into Spanish and French
|
Latin America
French speaking African countries and France |
Dissemination:
Reduce language barrier |
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May - September 2005
|
Dissemination activities |
Printed, internet and CD-Rom versions to satisfy the requirements of various target groups |
Dissemination: Broad user spectrum
|
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September 2005 onwards
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Transfer of operational tasks from project teams to newly established coordination unit |
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Continuous improvement: Institutional continuity for dissemination, feedback collection and document updates |