scholarly journals Citywide Inclusive Sanitation Guidance Note: Inclusive Financial Mechanisms: Improving Access to Sanitation Services for Poor Households

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Poor ◽  
Water Sector ◽  
Learning Materials ◽  
Sanitation Services ◽  
Guidance Note ◽  
Poor Households ◽  
Essential Knowledge ◽  
Processing Cycle

This guidance note outlines key considerations and practical steps to take in designing citywide inclusive sanitation (CWIS) projects on affordable and sustainable sanitation services for the urban poor. Funding for sanitation must be utilized effectively to reach those most in need of support. This guidance note explains how different financing mechanisms can be applied to provide affordable sanitation services to poor households. It is part of a series that aims to share essential knowledge to embed CWIS principles in planning and delivering sanitation services to ADB developing member countries. These learning materials were prepared by ADB’s Water Sector Group and structured along the ADB project processing cycle.

scholarly journals Citywide Inclusive Sanitation Guidance Note: What Is Citywide Inclusive Sanitation and Why Is It Needed?

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Water Sector ◽  
Learning Materials ◽  
Human Waste ◽  
Service Chain ◽  
Sanitation Services ◽  
Guidance Note ◽  
Essential Knowledge ◽  
Processing Cycle

This guidance note explains how the concept of citywide inclusive sanitation (CWIS) for developing more comprehensive, effective, and sustainable sanitation services in urban areas. CWIS focuses on providing urban areas with access to and benefits from adequate and sustainable sanitation services, including the safe, effective, and sustainable management of all human waste along the whole sanitation service chain. This guidance note is part of a series that aims to share essential knowledge to embed CWIS principles in planning and delivering sanitation services to ADB developing member countries. These learning materials were prepared by ADB’s Water Sector Group and structured along the ADB project processing cycle.

scholarly journals Citywide Inclusive Sanitation Guidance Note: Addressing Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in Urban Sanitation Projects

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Sanitation Services ◽  
Guidance Note ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Essential Knowledge ◽  
Underserved Groups ◽  
Equity And Inclusion

This guidance note underscores why addressing gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) is fundamental to the success of citywide inclusive sanitation (CWIS) project success. Equity and inclusion is one of the four elements of CWIS. As such, CWIS projects need activities to target specific unserved and underserved groups, including women and children, ethnic minorities, the urban poor, and persons with disabilities. This guidance note is part of a series that aims to share essential knowledge to embed CWIS principles in planning and delivering sanitation services to ADB developing member countries. These learning materials were prepared by ADB’s Water Sector Group and structured along the ADB project processing cycle.

Pro-poor strategies for urban water supply and sanitation services delivery in Africa

2005 ◽  
Vol 51 (8) ◽  
pp. 51-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Cross ◽  
A. Morel
Keyword(s):  
Urban Poor ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Service Development ◽  
Service Improvement ◽  
Water Utility ◽  
Sanitation Services ◽  
Services Delivery ◽  
Entry Points ◽  
Service Areas ◽  
Dramatic Rise

Water utilities in Africa find it increasingly difficult to provide adequate services to the needy areas: their core business operations are often stagnant, compounded by a dramatic rise in peri-urban and poor settlements. To address these challenges, the Water and Sanitation Program Africa has designed a work program to disseminate the best practice in pro-poor service development and to help utilities and municipal authorities to develop roadmaps to the MDGs for their service areas. Activities will primarily be directed at: (i) helping utilities and municipal authorities to include pro-poor objectives in their reform; and, (ii) working jointly with local partners, CBOs and NGOs, and SSPs to develop strategies and actions specifically targeting informal settlements. WSP-AF will focus on utilities that are engaged in reform or planning to do so. This program builds on support developed for Water Utility Partnership (WUP#5). Key entry points for pro-poor strategies: (i) pro-poor tariffs and financing mechanisms for service improvement, (ii) institutional arrangements to improve services to the urban poor, (iii) pro-poor transaction design (including regulation and monitoring), (iv) advocacy and communications regarding the urban poor, and (v) consumer voice and civil society engagement.

Power dynamics and water reform in the Zimbabwean context: implications for the poor

Water Policy ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 517-527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Everisto Mapedza ◽  
Kim Geheb
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Water Sector ◽  
African Region ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Poor Households ◽  
Water Reform

In Zimbabwe, the state has been reconfiguring the water sector since 1998, as has been happening more generally within the wider Southern African region. Within the water sector, as in broader environmental governance, decentralization is increasingly being proposed as an important step towards increased accountability, equity and positive social and environmental outcomes. Decentralization is defined as the devolution of powers to local level institutions which are downwardly accountable to their constituencies. This paper looks at the Zimbabwean case of decentralising water management and assesses whether or not this process has yielded positive social, economic and environmental outcomes. The paper views the reform process as a reflection of the power asymmetries that work against the interests of poor households in accessing water for both domestic and productive uses.

The Servant Class City

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Karjanen
Keyword(s):  
Inner City ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Urban Revitalization ◽  
Working Poor ◽  
Poor Households ◽  
New Development ◽  
Economic Trends ◽  
Social Safety Nets ◽  
City Revitalization

The Servant Class City demonstrates that for San Diego’s inner city revitalization, focusing on new development, visitor services, and high-rises overlooks the dramatic growth in low-wage service work, and persistent challenges facing poor, and working poor inner city residents. The book documents how over in a 30 year period, San Diego’s urban revitalization targeted specific industries, creating thousands of low-wage jobs and transforming the inner city, while at the same time broader economic trends further eroded the economic standing of the urban poor and working poor. As a result, inner city revitalization was planned and dependent on the continued expansion of poor and working poor households, while a range of other economic challenges, from payday lending and check cashing to unaffordable housing and limited social safety nets, have made the economic standing of the urban poor and working poor even more precarious, despite dramatic urban revitalization. David J. Karjanen argues that this process, as well as the broader efforts of urban policy, fails to adequately address the highly complex economic problems of the urban and working poor, and only a dramatic re-thinking of these issues will generate substantial solutions.

Improving access to water supply and sanitation in urban India: microfinance for water and sanitation infrastructure development

2008 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 887-891 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenna Davis ◽  
Gary White ◽  
Said Damodaron ◽  
Rich Thorsten
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Sanitation Services ◽  
Poor Households ◽  
Access To Water ◽  
Water And Sanitation Infrastructure ◽  
Sanitation Infrastructure ◽  
The City ◽  
Water Supply And Sanitation

This article summarises initial findings of a study to explore the potential of providing micro-financing for low-income households wishing to invest in improved water supply and sanitation services. Through in-depth interviews with more than 800 households in the city of Hyderabad in India, we conclude that, even if provided with market (not concessional) rates of financing, a substantial proportion of poor households would invest in water and sewer network connections.

scholarly journals The Suburbanisation of the Poor? Investigating the distribution and concentration of deprivation in Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand 1991-2013

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Joseph Arthur Roche
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
House Prices ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Central Cities ◽  
Macroeconomic Conditions ◽  
Spatial Inequalities ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Poor Households ◽  
Housing Options

<p>Inequality has emerged as a key issue in contemporary global urban debates. Many developed cities across the world are characterised by growing social–spatial inequalities, housing liberalisation, and gentrification, which limit the housing options of poor households. When the poor have limited housing options, they must deploy coping mechanisms. There is recent international literature on the suburbanisation of poverty predominantly in European and American cities. The aim of my research is to identify whether – given rising house prices – there has been a shift of the urban poor away from the central cities in New Zealand, towards the middle suburbs and peripheries. Furthermore, my research seeks to observe whether poor populations are becoming more concentrated. Using the New Zealand deprivation score, I analyse the trend towards a marked suburbanisation of deprivation in the two biggest cities in New Zealand, Auckland and Wellington. I find a shift of deprivation away from the city centre and towards the middle and outer suburbs in both cities. I find that the spatial distribution of deprivation changes with the macroeconomic conditions of the time. I also find in cases of no ‘suburbanisation of the poor’ that instead the poor are crowding and consuming less housing. These findings can inform future urban development practices.</p>

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