Guide to Ring-Fencing of Local Government-Run Water Utilities

This report is one of the deliverables under Component 3 of the Small Water Utilities Improvement and Financing (SWIF) project implemented by the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP). SWIF aims to improve the ability of small utilities to access increasingly market-based financing in line with the Government of the Philippines’ water sector financing strategy. Component 3, cofinanced by the Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility Sub-National Technical Assistance, seeks to examine issues surrounding access to market-based financing by small water utilities towardsdeveloping an intervention program, including the ring-fencing of accounts of local government-run water utilities.