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Despite a general trend to higher numbers of projects being rated successful or better over the past few years, about 30% of ADB's project portfolio of the Asian Devlopment Bank (ADB) is still rated less than successful during the evaluation phase. Read more...
Key lessons for up-scaling and out-scaling of DFID research Read more...
By the late 1990s, 97 percent of the rural population in Bangladesh had access to an improved water supply. However, the water in many places was contaminated by arsenic causing major risks to health. The government and NGOs have responded by installing alternative water supplies but these... Read more...
A field note by the Water and Sanitation Program - South Asia (WSP-SA) documents the evolution of three large, river-based schemes in Aliparamba Gram Panchayat near Kozhikode in the north of Kerala state, India. Read more...
Elsa D. Mejia is General Manager of the Inpart Waterworks and Development Company (IWADCO), a family enterprise that started as a small construction company specializing in the production of water tanks for small towns and municipalities in and around Metro Manila, Philippines. She discusses her... Read more...
A study by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) reviewed the extent to which the five Paris Principles (PPs) on Aid Effectiveness (AE) as set out in the Paris Declaration (PD) on AE: ownership, alignment, harmonisation, managing for results and mutual accountability, are being applied in the... Read more...
A summary of the evaluation report of Water for Recovery and Peace Program (WRAPP) in Southern Sudan. Read more...
The Nepal WASH Coalition is able to leverage media coverage and establish the ties needed to bring lasting change in the sanitation and water supply situation in Nepal. Read more...
As part of its program, the Government of Sri Lanka embarked in 2001-2002 in the preparation of a series of sector reforms to improve its capacity to provide for new investments and improve the operation and maintenance of existing ones. Read more...
In Ghana, three-quarters of the population lack decent sanitation. Poor sanitation is the cause of many life-threatening diseases, including diarrhoea, and the lives of many children could be saved if latrines were installed in their homes. What factors affect whether families in Ghana have... Read more...
High and upfront water connection charges often act as a major barrier to connecting the poor. So why charge for a connection? Read more...
Who Pays for Water? a case study of action learning in the islands of the Caribbean Read more...
L’accès équitable aux systèmes améliorés de sanitation demeure l’un des défis majeurs auxquels font face quotidiennement les communautés de pays en développement. L’évacuation de matières usées se fait à partir d’une décharge ménagère, publique ou à l’air libre. Ce dernier procédé, plus fréquent... Read more...
The Global Water Partnership (GWP) was established in 1996 as an international network promoting an integrated approach to water resources management. The Performance Assessment Resource Centre (PARC) carried out an evaluation of the GWP for its Joint Donor Group of six European bilaterals (Denmark... Read more...
A paper from the Asia Research Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science in the UK examines recent urban sector reforms and their implications for urban governance in India. Read more...
Research from Oxford University, in the UK, evaluates the social impacts of watershed development in Madhya Pradesh, India. Read more...
Safe hygiene practices and access to sanitation are crucial for combating the main health threats to children. However, nearly twice as many people lack access to sanitation compared with water supply. Is it time to stop aligning sanitation and health (S&H)) policies so closely with water... Read more...
