International Water and Sanitation Centre IRC, Delft, The Netherlands

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International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC),
Delft, The Netherlands

• John Butterworth
• International workshop on Governance of
  peri-urban water and sanitation services The
  role of external support agencies (ESAs)
• 17-18 October 2005, Cape Town, South Africa

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Contents

• IRC background
• Supporting findings (Negowat Negotiating land
  and water conflicts in peri-urban zones)
• Cochabamba, Bolivia
• Chennai, India
• Relevant IRC-related activities
• BUS (Basic urban services)
• WASPA (Wastewater Agriculture and Sanitation for
  Poverty Alleviation)
• SWITCH (Sustainable Water management Improves
  Tomorrows Cities Health)
• GovAgua network (LA-Europe)
• Other e.g. Training in decentralised wastewater
  management (with UNESCO-IHE), PRODWAT

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Cochabamba

• Community-managed systems in peri-urban areas
• Relative performance of these systems.successes
  and failures
• Current policy investment focus extending
  concessions (economies of scale)
• Macoti experience in Tiquipaya/ Colcapirhua and
  governance lessons
• www.irc.nl/negowat

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Governance lessons

• Improvements achieved through conflict versus a
  round the table focus on information sharing
• Political changes resulted in little change to
  project (hands tied)
• Lack of innovation/ capacity on institutional
  models
• Impacts of disbursement of money through large
  donor-funded projects

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Chennai

• A particular feature of the water supply system
  is water markets for sale of groundwater to
  public and private suppliers in the city
• Transmission by pipeline and tanker
• Severe impacts on management of a common pool
  resource
• www.irc.nl/negowat

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BUS

• UN-Habitat Sustainable Cities Programme includes
  component on Basic Urban Services (BUS) i.e.
  sanitation and water services.
• over period 2003-2008 demonstration projects in 6
  cities
• Initial activities in Colombo, Alexandria,
  Bobo-Dioulasso, Mumbai
• Household centred environmental sanitation (HCES)
• BUS handbook
• Learning alliances

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WASPA

• WASPA (Wastewater Agriculture and Sanitation for
  Poverty Alleviation)
• partnership focused on wastewater management in
  peri-urban areas
• more innovative planning, especially linking WASH
  and agriculture
• decentralised wastewater management
• Pilot projects beginning in South Asia (Sri
  Lanka, Bangladesh), Peru, Ghana etc

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GovAgua

• EC higher education capacity building project
  (ALFA)
• Focus on peri-urban water governance issues
  services and resources
• Brasil, Bolivia, Chile, UK, Netherlands, France
• One of four training modules/ courses focused on
  governance and peri-urban water services

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SWITCH

• SWITCH (Sustainable Water management Improves
  Tomorrows Cities Health)
• EC-funded framework 6 research project
• Europe southern cities
• Focus on 9 cities (Birmingham, Hamburg, Zaragosa,
  Lodz, Alexandria, Accra, Belo Horizonte, Bejing,
  Tel Aviv)
• Includes governance theme

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EMPOWERS

• EMPOWERS (Euro-Med Participatory Water Resources
  Scenarios)
• alliance-building, process documentation and
  cycles of information sharing are key to
  supporting the transformation in thinking about
  how to provide services 'at scale' to
  communities.
• www.empowers.info