Implementation Strategy for Urban Water Supply Policy

This report deals with the water sector in Cambodia, and only mentions sanitation aspects in passing. However, it is recognized that the scale of the sanitation challenge is similarly daunting to or even larger than the water challenge, and that pr...

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Main Author: World Bank
Format: Other Infrastructure Study
Language:English
en_US
Published: Washington, DC 2013
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/01/16518654/implementation-strategy-urban-water-supply-policy
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spelling okr-10986-126442021-04-23T14:03:05Z Implementation Strategy for Urban Water Supply Policy World Bank ACCESS TO SAFE WATER ACCESS TO SUSTAINABLE SERVICES CORPORATE GOVERNANCE OF UTILITIES MEDIUM-TERM CAPITAL INVESTMENT PROGRAM MTEF SUSTAINABLE USE OF WATER RESOURCES WATERBORNE DISEASES This report deals with the water sector in Cambodia, and only mentions sanitation aspects in passing. However, it is recognized that the scale of the sanitation challenge is similarly daunting to or even larger than the water challenge, and that progress in sanitation will be as crucial as expanded access to safe water in making a lasting impact on poverty incidence, in particular vulnerability to waterborne diseases. There are two main constraints to broad-based growth in the sector. First is the absence of a comprehensive strategy to channel financing into the sector and to address weak incentives to raise more own-generated funds from user revenues. Second is the capacity of the providers to absorb public funding and utilize resources efficiently towards expanded access to sustainable services. Both of these constraints will have to be addressed in the context of the country's overall policy of promoting sustainable use of water resources and considering concerns of the poor and marginalized in the pursuit of development. In the short term, the implementation strategy calls for the consolidation of individual investment projects in form of a comprehensive medium-term capital investment program (MTEF), which will serve as a planning tool for investments by the service providers, irrespective of funding source. Over the next years, the broader process of decentralization will have an impact on public and private providers, notably on investment planning decisions and corporate governance of utilities. 2013-03-11T22:02:45Z 2013-03-11T22:02:45Z 2012 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/01/16518654/implementation-strategy-urban-water-supply-policy http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12644 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Other Infrastructure Study Economic & Sector Work East Asia and Pacific Cambodia
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topic ACCESS TO SAFE WATER
ACCESS TO SUSTAINABLE SERVICES
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE OF UTILITIES
MEDIUM-TERM CAPITAL INVESTMENT PROGRAM
MTEF
SUSTAINABLE USE OF WATER RESOURCES
WATERBORNE DISEASES
spellingShingle ACCESS TO SAFE WATER
ACCESS TO SUSTAINABLE SERVICES
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE OF UTILITIES
MEDIUM-TERM CAPITAL INVESTMENT PROGRAM
MTEF
SUSTAINABLE USE OF WATER RESOURCES
WATERBORNE DISEASES
World Bank
Implementation Strategy for Urban Water Supply Policy
geographic_facet East Asia and Pacific
Cambodia
description This report deals with the water sector in Cambodia, and only mentions sanitation aspects in passing. However, it is recognized that the scale of the sanitation challenge is similarly daunting to or even larger than the water challenge, and that progress in sanitation will be as crucial as expanded access to safe water in making a lasting impact on poverty incidence, in particular vulnerability to waterborne diseases. There are two main constraints to broad-based growth in the sector. First is the absence of a comprehensive strategy to channel financing into the sector and to address weak incentives to raise more own-generated funds from user revenues. Second is the capacity of the providers to absorb public funding and utilize resources efficiently towards expanded access to sustainable services. Both of these constraints will have to be addressed in the context of the country's overall policy of promoting sustainable use of water resources and considering concerns of the poor and marginalized in the pursuit of development. In the short term, the implementation strategy calls for the consolidation of individual investment projects in form of a comprehensive medium-term capital investment program (MTEF), which will serve as a planning tool for investments by the service providers, irrespective of funding source. Over the next years, the broader process of decentralization will have an impact on public and private providers, notably on investment planning decisions and corporate governance of utilities.
format Economic & Sector Work :: Other Infrastructure Study
author World Bank
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title Implementation Strategy for Urban Water Supply Policy
title_short Implementation Strategy for Urban Water Supply Policy
title_full Implementation Strategy for Urban Water Supply Policy
title_fullStr Implementation Strategy for Urban Water Supply Policy
title_full_unstemmed Implementation Strategy for Urban Water Supply Policy
title_sort implementation strategy for urban water supply policy
publisher Washington, DC
publishDate 2013
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/01/16518654/implementation-strategy-urban-water-supply-policy
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12644
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