Pro-poor

Utilities Privatization and the Poor: Lessons and Evidence from Latin America

Understanding the location and potential of renewable energy resources is a crucial pre-requisite to their utilization, and to scaling up clean and secure sources of electricity generation such as…

WSS Working Notes No.11: Taking Account of the Poor in Water Sector Regulation

Toolkit for Pro-Poor Municipal PPPs

This briefing note has two aims: (1) to show policy-makers that expanding the local content of infrastructure projects is an achievable objective with real long-term benefits and (2) to provide…

Providing Water to Poor People in African Cities Effectively: Lessons from Utility Reforms

Improving Access to Infrastructure Services by the Poor: Institutional and Policy Responses

Expanding Renewable Energy Access with Pro-Poor Public-Private Partnerships in the Developing World

Who pays the most for water? Alternative providers and service costs in Niger

Pro-poor concessions for sustainable water services 

Public-Private Partnerships and the Poor - Private Sector Participation and the Poor: 3. Regulation

Public-Private Partnerships and the Poor - Private Sector Participation and the Poor: 2. Implementation

Public-Private Partnerships and the Poor - Private Sector Participation and the Poor: 1. Strategy

Do pro-poor policies increase water coverage? An analysis of service delivery in Kampala’s informal settlements

Starting a Pro-Poor Public-Private Partnership For a Basic Urban Service

This paper analyzes how PPP can change lives and have a strong impact addressing issues that the government may not be able to.

Pro- Poor Strategy for the Water and Sanitation Sector

Reference: National Public Private Partnership Policy

Urban Water Supply Department

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A case study of four barrios (neighborhoods) in Buenos Aires, Argentina where the initial water concession from the local government to Aguas de Argentina -the private utility- did not provide enough…

Universal Service Obligations in Utility Concession Contracts and the Needs of the Poor in Argentina’s Privatizations

Designing Pro-Poor Water and Sewer Concessions: Early Lessons from Bolivia

This is a detailed annex to a Mali rural energy concession document that allows a retail service provider to serve a specified community. It specifies minimum daily duration of the service and the…

Public-Private Partnerships and the Poor - Case Study- Jakarta, Indonesia. Drinking water concessions, (a study for better understanding public-private partnerships and water provision in low-income…