This document studies the existing water concession provisions in Dolphin Coast area in South Africa, including various outcomes before the report was published; different perceptions of several stakeholders; and its impact on poor groups in that particular area. It is a summary of the evaluation of the public-private partnership and its impact.
Utilities often fail to recover through tariffs the costs of operation and maintenance, let alone investment in infrastructure. There is a common perception that tariff increases are politically untenable and so utilities become subsidized out of general taxation, whether there is a deliberate policy to this end or, as is often the case because the service provider cannot balance its books at the end of the fiscal period.
A case study of a PPP for the operation, maintenance, and management of existing water and sanitation systems, and the partnership impact on the poor. The public-private partnership has been entered into by an operator called "Water and Sanitation Services South Africa" and the municipality of Queenstown, of the then Queenstown Transitional Local Council area (Eastern Cape Province) in South-Africa.
This document aims to make an initial evaluation of the subsidy schemes established in Senegal and Cote d’Ivoire for providing piped water to the poor, in order to assess how well social and ordinary connections work and possibly apply them in other emerging economies. “A social connection, aimed at the poor, is free, whereas an ordinary connection, aimed at wealthier households, must be paid for.
Some of the targeted people are those registered on the Beneficiary Selection National System - Sistema Nacional de Selección de Beneficiarios (SISBEN) database older than 16 years old and whose score in said database is between 0 to 40 points. They can avail themselves of a discount of 25% for a maximum of 30 monthly trips. District Decree 603 of 2013 (as modified by Article 2 Decree 131 of 2017.
This Chapter explains how policy should focus on creating specific strategies that specifically target the poor in urban areas. The document implies that policies usually are too general and do not address the real problem of the poor settled in informal areas. The Chapter also gives examples of good practices in water sector policy in several regions of Africa.
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The Public-Private Partnership Legal Resource Center (PPPLRC) has a new section that looks at key legal issues to be considered to ensure that PPPs reach the poor, sets out possible legal and contractual mechanisms to promote an enabling environment for pro-poor projects, as well as suggest ways to facilitate and incentivize service delivery. Read More >
This chapter relies on systematic review of published literature and empirical data derived from a research conducted between December 2014 and March 2015 involving oral interviews with experts in nine PPP housing projects in the six-geopolitical zones of Nigeria. It contributes to knowledge by improving understanding of the PPP experience in housing in Nigeria and the opportunities in PPP in housing for the low low-income earners in urban Nigeria. The chapter proceeds in five distinct sections.
This is a Project Performance Assessment Report (PPAR) of the Poverty Reduction Fund (PRF) Project that was approved on June 25, 2002, and ended on the extended closing date of September 30, 2011. Total estimated project costs, including one additional financing (AF), were US$34.34 million. Actual project costs were US$43.51 million, including US$2.37 million in counterpart funding from the Government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) and US$7.27 co-financing from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).
The inclusion of Pro-Poor content in PPP projects has been well analyzed for different sectors of the economy.
Below are documents explaining how pro-poor content in contracts, regulations, and practices have worked in the field.