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Liberalization in the Water Sector: Three Leading Models

Claude Menard, Peeroo Aleksandra

Section I comes back to the characteristics of the water sector. It describes some key features that may explain the slow pace of reform and that may also help better understanding characteristics and limits of that process. Then, a historical and global overview of the liberalization movement and the actual state of the water sector is presented.

Section II examines more specifically the main drivers towards and factors of resistance to the liberalization process in the water sector.

A Governance Guide to the Victorian Water Industry

This Guide provides an overview of the governance framework surrounding the water industry and an introduction to the legislation, ministers, government departments and regulators that play a role in the management of Victorian water.

Although not an alternative to reading and understanding the relevant legislation, this Guide provides a framework for navigating through the regulatory system and a useful induction tool for newcomers to the industry.

 

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Approaches to Private Participation Water Services: A Toolkit

This Toolkit aims to help developing country governments that are interested in using private firms to help expand access to safe water and sanitation services at reasonable cost.  Specially, it aims to help them and their advisers design arrangements that maximize the benefits for their countries, provinces, or municipalities.  It is intended to complement other work being undertaken by the World bank and others on options for improving public provision of water services.

PF2: User Guide

HM Treasury have issued a new policy document and new contract standardisation guidance for PF2 as follows:

(a) “A New Approach to Public Private Partnerships” (“PF2 Policy”) (http://www.hmtreasury.gov.uk/infrastructure_ppp_contractual.htm) and

(b) “Standardisation of PF2 Contracts” (“PF2 Guidance”) ((http://www.hmtreasury.gov.uk/infrastructure_ppp_contractual.htm).

PF2 Guidance replaces the old PFI guidance named “Standardisation of PFI Contracts Version 4” which was issued in March 2007 (“SoPC 4”).

PPP Project Screening and Analytics Tool (PSAT) 2.0

The World Bank's Infrastructure Finance, Public-Private Partnerships and Guarantees Global Practice (IPG) developed the Tool. In 2023, climate change parameters were incorporated, resulting in an updated user manual. The Tool is an enhanced version of the PPP Screening Tool (PST) created by IPG in 2017 and updated in 2021 with Pipeline Analytics functionality. It enables the comparison, analysis, and prioritization of numerous projects.