The water and sanitation sector in Indian cities is characterized by weak accountability processes and lack of customer orientation. The institutional focus of service providers tends to be on creating...
SLB Connect is an initiative of the World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Program, developed inpartnership with India’s Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD), to complement the Ministry’s ServiceLevel Benchmarks...
Africa's urban population will triple by 2050. People in these rapidly growing cities need safe, convenient, and reliable water supplies. However, the proportion of Africa's urban population with improved...
Since 2007, the World Bank Group’s Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) has provided technical assistance to the Government of Indonesia to help develop and shape the implementation of its national rural...
The Punjab province has seen visible and laudable improvements in the quantum of water supply and sanitation services available to its citizens in the past decades. In the water supply sector, the Millennium...
In October 2014, the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) initiated a study to document its engagement in the rural sanitation sector in India between 2002 and 2013. The intent was to learn from achievements...
Coverage figures also need to be viewed in the context of the grave water quality issues, virtual lack of treatment of sewage and wastewater in a heavily industrialized province, and serious contamination...
In the Indian federal structure, rural sanitation is a state government responsibility. However, since this sector has been identified as a development priority, the Government of India provides the bulk...
Balikpapan city, located in the province of East Kalimantan, Indonesia has a reported population ofapproximately 640,000 people and annual population growth of about 4.5 percent. A key challenge facing...
This report summarises the main findings of a case study on fecal sludge management in Lima, Peru. The objectives of the study were: to provide quantitative and qualitative data on the sanitation situation...
Urban sanitation remains a significant challenge for most low- and middle-income countries. The urban population of the group of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) more than tripled between 1990 and 2015...
Addressing the need for fecal sludge management (FSM) from on-site sanitation systems is critical to improving sanitation in poor urban settlements. A preliminary review of the status of FSM in 12 cities...
This document contains a generic terms of reference (TOR) for contracting a firm to carry out data collection, data analysis and production of the outputs of the diagnostic tools.
This document contains data collection instruments to support data collection, for which the resulting data will inform diagnostic and decision-making tools for Fecal Sludge Management (FSM) services...
This report summarises the main findings of a case study on fecal sludge management in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. The specific objectives of the study are: to provide quantitative and qualitative data on the...
This report summarizes the main findings of a case study on fecal sludge management in Hawassa,Ethiopia. The specific objectives of the study were: to provide quantitative and qualitative data on the sanitation...
This report summarises the main findings of a case study on fecal sludge management in Dhaka, Bangladesh. There are five city case studies as part of this project (Balikpapan, Dhaka, Freetown, Lima and...
Vietnam has achieved impressive results in increasing sanitation coverage. In 1990, only 31 percent of rural households had access to improved sanitation. By 2015, this rate had increased to 70 percent...
The performance of water and sanitation utility companies varies greatly, but many are underperforming. This is due mainly to systemic issues, which can include weak governance, lack of accountability...