Nathaniel Mason

Nat's research background is in pro-poor service delivery, financing and policy, and the political and technical dimensions of water security.

His work at ODI ranges from researching the links between WASH services and peace- and state-building in fragile contexts; to writing policy briefings on water security metrics; to coordinating ODI inputs to a 4 year, multi-country EC research project on irrigation in Africa.

Nat previously worked for WaterAid in the UK and Nepal, on a number of policy-oriented research projects around financing water supply and sanitation in developing countries. He joined ODI after a period with the Water and Sanitation Program of the World Bank, Nairobi helping research and write the second round of Country Status Overviews – produced in collaboration with over thirty countries, for the African Ministers’ Council on Water.

Outputs

Collective action, corporate action: what works in water stewardship?

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 9 September 2013

Natural resources, and their management, have seen a surge in corporate interest that seems unlikely to slacken. There has been a mushrooming of water initiatives involving the private sector under the banner of water stewardship, which claim to address shared risks through the combined effort of business, government and civil society.

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Literature review of property rights and development

Publication - Bibliography and literature reviews - 13 August 2013

Anna Locke, Giles Henley, Nathaniel Mason, Peter Newborne, Pilar Domingo, Michael Mattingly

This study aims to look at the state of evidence on the link between secure property rights and development, with an emphasis on recent evidence in African countries, and identify where there are significant gaps that need to be plugged by further research.

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The post-2015 delivery of universal and sustainable access to infrastructure services

Publication - Discussion papers - 25 June 2013

ODI Working Papers

Julian Doczi, Tobias Dorr, Nathaniel Mason, Andrew Scott

This paper considers what will be necessary to achieve goals for universal and sustainable access to infrastructure, specifically water, energy and transport.

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Vegetable farmer with his watering cans in Ghana

African Ministers’ Council on Water training: German climate adaptation strategy

Event - Training - 23 - 30 June 2013

The training and study tour of an African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW) Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) provided a closer look at effective climate adaptation measures in the German water sector. The aim was to share experiences and approaches to climate resilience in Europe and Africa, while also enhancing awareness of AMCOW’s strategic framework for water security and climate resilient development.

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Getting to scale in urban water supply

Publication - Briefing papers - 31 May 2013

Josephine Tucker and Nathaniel Mason

This brief offers lessons for scale-up deriving from Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor's 2008-2012 programme in Maputo (Mozambique) and Antananarivo (Madagascar).

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