Policy Principles and Implementation Guidelines for Sustainable Services
April 2005 - Welcome to the online section of the instruments for "Public-Private Partnerships for Water Supply and Sanitation". Here you will find background information on the initiative and the development process of the instruments, references to other supportive materials and contact information in case you need further information.
Rationale
Water is fundamental to life and health. By extension, it is a prerequisite for realizing other, basic human rights and in the fight against poverty. The vital importance of water for development is also reflected in one of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): by 2015, the number of people without access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation must be cut in half.
Innovative partnerships are needed to meet this huge challenge.
Focus
This multi-partner initiative focuses on enabling successful PPPs in water supply and sanitation projects in order to promote overall water sector development. The partners goal is to assist local, national and international private and public actors (including small-scale providers) by proposing formal approaches for good water governance in PPP projects. They have been facilitating the development of new enabling instruments (as available so far) with adequate methodologies:
- Policy Principles for the policy making level, developed in Multi-Stakeholder interviews and international and regional dialogues
- Implementation Guidelines for the operational level of municipal services, based on case study evaluation and expert input and back-tested in various regions
- ToolContainer, an online database providing practitioners with references to supportive tools.
The present partners of the initiative