Achieving water security remains an elusive goal across swathes of sub-Saharan Africa. This book asks why, and draws on extensive field research and institutional analysis in Ethiopia to offer insights for policy and practice which are relevant across the continent.
This study explores the politics of urban water supply and sanitation delivery in the city of Colombo, Sri Lanka, where improvements in coverage have been achieved within a national context characterised by almost three decades of civil war.
Karen Ellis, Stefanie Bauer (GIZ), Pragya Kothari (GIZ), Dominik Weidert (independent expert), Daniel Harris, Alberto Lemma and Zhang Xioaying (IPRCC)
This Working Paper summarises findings from recent in-country research around ways to promote green growth, focusing on lessons that can be learnt from India and China.
There is an increasing desire among policy and programming communities for service delivery in fragile and conflict affected states and situations to yield peace-building and state-building benefits. This paper maps the theoretical relationships and assesses the state of the evidence, which is found to be patchy for service delivery in general, and more so for WASH services.