Meeting the water reform challenge.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Secretary-General, issuing body.

Series:

OECD studies on water.

OECD studies on water, 2224-5073

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water-supply--Economic aspects.

Water-supply.

Water-supply--Government policy.

Water-supply--Management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (174 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Paris : OECD Publishing, [2012]

Summary:

Water policies around the world are in urgent need of reform.Despite improvements in some sectors and countries, progress on meeting national, regional and international goals for managing and securing access to water for all has been uneven. Rallying policymakers around a positive water reform agenda needs to be a high priority and calls for strong political commitment and leadership. This report on Meeting the Water Reform Challenge brings together key insights from recent OECD work and identifies the priority areas where governments need to focus their reform efforts.It calls for governments to focus on getting the basics of water policy right. Sustainable financing, effective governance, and coherence between water and sectoral policies are the building blocks of successful reform.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Preface

Acknowledgements

Table of contents

Acronyms and abbreviations

Executive summary

Chapter 1: Framing the water reform challenge

Introduction

Key water trends and projections

Emerging issues in water policy

Designing reforms that are realistic and politically acceptable

References

Chapter 2: Meeting the water financing challenge

What are the benefits from investing in water and sanitation?

How much investment is needed?

Closing the financing gap

Bridging the financing gap: Tapping repayable sources of funding

The role of the private sector to help mobilise financing

Beyond water and sanitation: Financing water resources management

Moving forward on the water financing challenge

Chapter 3: Meeting the water governance challenge

A multi-level governance approach for addressing complexity in the water sector

Observations from the institutional mapping of roles and responsibilities in the water sector

Challenges to co-ordinating water policies across ministries and between levels of government

Governance fragmentation at the metropolitan level

Multi-level Co-ordination of Water Policies

Moving forward on meeting the water governance challenge

Chapter 4: Meeting the water coherence challenge

Framing the coherence challenges

Linkages between energy, water and the environment

Linkages between agriculture, water and the environment

Moving forward on the water, energy and agriculture coherence challenge

References.

Notes:

"This work is published on the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 27, 2014).

ISBN:

9781780406015

1780406010

OCLC:

919524694