Water Supply and Sanitation
by: Barbara Evans
Barbara Evans, the Water and Sanitation Progam's Global Urban Team Leader,
will discuss the importance of partnerships in addressing the financial
and institutional challenges of urban sanitation. Using examples from
the Asia region—in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan—she will
highlight key lessons learned for programmers as well as local government
and utilities:
- Be flexible about
technology
- Organize at the
lowest possible level
- Ensure that all
the necessary intermediary services are provided by appropriate organizations
- Bridge the gap
between utility and consumers
- Focus on Women
- Think about risk
and responsibilities
- Invest in assessing
consumers upfront
- Make explicit
linkages between the community and municipal/ utility structures
- Consider linkages
to the land and housing markets
- Consider linkages
to other sectors
- Have clear strategies
on externalities
Sanitation and Health for
the Urban Poor in Latin America and the Caribbean
by: Eduardo A. Perez
This presentation
will address the still unmet and growing challenge of providing excreta
related sanitation services to the urban poor in Latin America. The
presentation will first provide an overview of existing sanitation coverage
in Latin America and the Caribbean—describing both quantity and
quality conditions. The presentation will then discuss the health and
environmental implications of inadequate sanitation conditions for the
urban poor followed by an analysis of the constraints that exist that
have contributed to the poor sanitation and health conditions in informal
urban areas.
The presentation
will then provide a brief overview of the current state of knowledge
for approaches to effectively address the sanitation problems including
financial, institutional, technical, health and environmental followed
by a more detailed focus and description of condominial sewers and experiences
to date in Brazil and Bolivia.
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