This guidance note provides practical suggestions for addressing gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) in projects, and suggest five strategies to help deliver these suggestions and achieve sanitation for all.
The identifies lessons for each sector and cross-cutting lessons for both energy and water operations centered on promoting financial and operational discipline (regardless of private or public ownership), and institutional governance and accountability.
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PPP in Watershed Management - Does Watershed Development Implemented through Public Private Partnership Empower Women? A Case Review from Rajasthan, Western India, Journal of Cleaner Production, 2013 (fee for purchase)
Briefing Notes, Gender and Development Group, The World Bank, March 2007
The publication explores why gender issues are important in the water and sanitation sector, how the World Bank is integrating gender in water supply and sanitation (WSS) activities and gives three examples of innovative approaches to integrate gender. One example shows how the private sector engaged women to make bricks for latrines in South Africa.
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Performance Contract for Water Supply and Sewerage Authorities
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Whether privately managed utilities outperform those run by the state is an old question. What makes it difficult to answer is that utilities such as water and electricity distribution companies do not operate in competitive markets, where a change from public to private management is expected to lead to cost savings and efficiency gains driven by the profit motive. Indeed, studies looking at priva tized firms operating in competitive markets have reported increases in labor productivity, output, and investment and improvements in service quality.
Code Penal Art. 350 - A new article 350 was introduced into the Code Penale in 2006 (by loi no.06.23 du 20 decembre 2006) to include fraudulent extraction of water, electricity and gas as theft, punishalbe from 1 to 5 years in prison and fines from 500 to 20.000 dinars.
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Private Sector Participation Option for Improvement and Expansion of Water Supply and Sewerage Services to the City.
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