Tapping the market : the challenge of institutional reform in the urban water sector / Andrew Nickson and Richard Franceys.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nickson, Andrew.

Contributor:

Franceys, R.

Series:

Role of government in adjusting economies

The Role of government in adjusting economies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water utilities--Developing countries.

Water utilities.

Municipal corporations--Developing countries.

Municipal corporations.

Water-supply--Developing countries.

Water-supply.

Developing countries.

Physical Description:

xiv, 210 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Summary:

This book examines the challenge of reform of the urban water supply sector in developing countries, based on case studies of state-owned water companies in Ghana, India, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe. The growing public private partnership for urban water supply is analyzed, focussing on the concession contract model. The implications for meeting the water needs of the urban poor, for the regulatory role of the state and for state capacity building are also discussed.

Contents:

1 Reform of the Urban Water Sector and the Role of Government 1

1.2 Rethinking urban water supply 3

1.3 Urban water sector reform 5

1.4 The New Public Management 7

1.5 Concepts of capacity 12

2 The Structure and Performance of Urban Water Utilities 17

2.2 Organisational arrangements for service provision 17

2.3 Performance management 20

2.4 Review of organisational performance 26

2.5 Consumer perceptions of service quality 29

3 Explanations of Performance and Reform Responses 33

3.2 Organisational capacity 34

3.3 Institutional capacity 37

3.4 Reform policies and plans 40

3.5 Reform processes 42

4 The Spectrum of Public Private Partnerships 50

4.2 Factors internal to the provider 50

4.3 The pressure from external stakeholders 52

4.4 The argument for private sector participation in urban water supply 54

4.5 Vertical unbundling 55

4.6 The range of institutional arrangements 56

5 The Challenge of the Concession Model 73

5.2 Drivers for performance 78

5.3 Risk transfer 82

5.4 Buenos Aires: the concession model in operation 88

5.5 Choosing public private partnerships 95

6 Addressing the Water Needs of the Urban Poor 103

6.2 Serving the urban poor 106

6.3 Private water vendors and the urban poor 108

6.4 Non-government organisations and the urban poor 111

6.5 Government providers and the urban poor 113

6.6 Public private partnerships and the urban poor 117

7 Regulating and Enabling the Direct Providers 127

7.2 The activities of regulation 132

7.3 Models of regulation 135

7.4 Regulation in the case study countries 147

7.5 The regulatory experience of low and middle-income countries 150

8 Taking Account of Capacity 153

8.2 Developing the capacity to change 155

8.3 Capacity within the public sector 159

8.4 Capacity within the other partners 164

8.5 The capacity of international private operators 166

8.6 The capacity to act as partners 169

8.7 Capacity within the case study countries 170

9 Reforming Urban Water Sector Reform 181

9.2 The international reform agenda for the urban water supply sector 182

9.3 The need for reform 184

9.4 Specific policy reforms 185

9.5 Relevance of the NPM agenda and related water sector reforms 185.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-201) and index.

ISBN:

0333736206

OCLC:

51944495