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		Water & Sanitation Title: Innovative Contracts, Sound Relationships Urban Water Sector Reform in Senegal Author(s): Clarissa Brocklehurst ; Jan G. Janssens Posted Date: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 Keywords: agriculture, chloride, Drinking water, Droughts, export, phosphate, pipes, service area, SHC, surface water, surface water sources, Urban Water, water demand, water distribution, Water Quality, water shortages, Water Supply, water supply systems, water system, Water Utilities Copyrights: Copyright © 2004 The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank. All right Type: File Decription: The Innovative Contracts, Sound Relationships: Urban Water Sector Reform paper is the first in the new Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Board Discussion Paper Series. The publication series targets cutting-edge water supply and sanitation practices, and offers an opportunity to present the knowledge gained and good practices developed by the World Bank’s professional community and to keep the world-wide water supply and sanitation community up to date with the World Bank projects and operational research. The series is aimed at internal and external audiences, including practitioners and policy makers. All publications in the series are peer-reviewed. The first paper in the series analyses a successful reform process in Senegal. The paper describes how several years of hard work on reforming the sector resulted in considerable improvements in services for existing customers and expansion to new customers. The reform included a broad package of measures, including the introduction of a public-private partnership in the form of a hybrid lease (affermage) contract. This has had a significant impact on the quality of water services for those in the private operator’s service area. As the study documents, the design of the contract supported the government’s objective of serving the poor, and, coupled with funding initiatives, resulted in many previously un-connected poor customers benefiting from water supply services. Download File: Innovative Contracts, Sound Relationships Urban Water Sector Reform in Senegal.pdf (329K)