Director Aguaconsult
Harold Lockwood is an expert in water supply and sanitation with over twenty years of international work experience focusing on institutional analysis, sector reform and policy development, decentralisation of service provision, programme design, monitoring and evaluation, community participation and management, and sustainability issues. Harold holds a Master's degree and has worked in a wide range of countries in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Harold held a long-term position in Pakistan between 1993 and 1995, where he was a technical advisor to the Local Government and Rural Development Department. In 1996 to 1999, Harold was based in Nicaragua as an advisor to the National Institute for Water and Sanitation. Harold is the director of the UK consulting firm Aguaconsult. He regularly undertakes field assignments for a broad range of clients including major bi-lateral donors, multi-lateral agencies, UN organisations, international NGOs, Foundations and private sector companies. Harold's passion for improving services for the rural poor stems from his decade and more field experience and working in close collaboration with communities, local and central government in sustaining the benefits of development aid over the long term.
An introduction to ten building blocks to support sustainable service delivery. Read more...
Background note to the 3rd IRC event on the limits of aid and the future of trade and presentations of the Keynote presentations by DGIS, Simavi and... Read more...
The USAID water strategy has had the gestation period of an elephant, but now that it's finally out, has it been worth the wait? Read more...
This case study describes how Engineers Without Borders (EWB) promotes sustainable rural WASH services in Malawi. Read more...
Triple-S Working Paper exploring the gap between the two parallel processes of wash sector devolution and decentralisation. Read more...
Triple-S country study Uganda. Read more...
Public-private partnerships potentially harness market incentives to improve service delivery and leverage private capital for investment costs. Read more...
Professionalisation of community based-management means moving away from the voluntary provision of water services towards a philosophy of service... Read more...
Why have we been unable to provide a sustainable water service to rural people for so long? What were the success factors in the areas where there... Read more...