Water and Sanitation
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PPPs in Irrigation
Key Commercial RisksIrrigated agriculture projects, especially those involving smallholder farmers, are difficult to fund on a commercial basis from day one because they cannot deliver short-term…
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Water and Sanitation Agreements
Public private partnerships in water require various agreements, or contracts, to outline the relationships and responsibilities between various stake holders. The agreements below are specific to…
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Water & Sanitation Toolkits
Listed below is a number of toolkits that comprises contracts, leases, affermages, concessions, divestitures relevant to private participation in both water supply and sanitation services, as well an…
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Water and Sanitation Lease and Affermage Contracts
Hybrid affermage/ Concession contractsIn the water sector in recent years in West Africa, a hybid affermage/ concession arrangement has been adopted - a description of such an arrangement in Cote d'…
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Water Management/Operation and Maintenance Contracts
Management ContractsThe World Bank has developed a Standard Form Management Contract together with Bidding Document and Technical Note recommended for use on water and energy projects the Bank is…
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Managing Non-Technical Losses and Theft in Utility Contracts
Perhaps one of the greatest challenges in successfully operating a PPP related to utility services is to effectively deal with “non-technical losses” – a euphemism for theft – of utility services.…
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Raw and Treated Bulk Water Supply Agreements
AustraliaMelbourne, Victoria - Bulk Water Supply Agreement between the Melbourne Water Corporation (MWC) and City West Water (CWW) (now Greater Western Water), one of the utilities for the city…
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Water & Sanitation PPPs
Almost fifty percent of the developing world’s population - 2.5 billion people – lack improved sanitation facilities, and almost 1 billion people still use unsafe drinking water sources, and even…
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Guidelines & Tools
This section highlights a curated set of tools developed by the World Bank Group (WBG) to assist with key stages of the infrastructure and Public-Private Partnership (PPP) lifecycle. The tools are…
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Cartagena, Colombia Case Study
The primary objective of the PPP AGUACAR was to provide water/waste- water services to the entire community, especially to the lower-income house-holds.
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Regulation of Water Supply and Sanitation in Bank Client Countries - A Fresh Look
Discussion Paper of the Water Supply and Sanitation Global Solutions Group, Water Global Practice, World Bank