Development aid and access to water and sanitation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Providing safe drinking water and basic sanitation to citizens is one of the major challenges facing the African Governments. The issues of access to safe drinking water and improved sanitation is well articulated and prioritized in the various national, continental, and international policy documen...

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Main Authors: Salami, A., Stampini, M., Kamara, A., Sullivan, C., Namara, Regassa E.
Format: Artículo preliminar
Language:Inglés
Published: African Development Bank 2011
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/39356
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author Salami, A.
Stampini, M.
Kamara, A.
Sullivan, C.
Namara, Regassa E.
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Namara, Regassa E.
Salami, A.
Stampini, M.
Sullivan, C.
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Stampini, M.
Kamara, A.
Sullivan, C.
Namara, Regassa E.
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description Providing safe drinking water and basic sanitation to citizens is one of the major challenges facing the African Governments. The issues of access to safe drinking water and improved sanitation is well articulated and prioritized in the various national, continental, and international policy documents, strategy papers, declarations, and conventions. And yet it is not clear if the provision of sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation has been given the requisite financial and other support by the SSA policy makers and donors. The principal objective of this paper is to compare countries' performance in the water and sanitation sector and analyze how effectively they used the development aid received for the Water and Sanitation sector (WSS). Much has been written on Development Aid Effectiveness, but the focus of attention has often been on how the donors operate, and how the recipients use the money. In this context, the paper utilised an innovative standardized measurement framework known as-the Watsan Index of Development Effectiveness (WIDE) - which compares drivers of progress with results achieved, and ranks African countries by the level of outcome obtained per unit of available input. In particular, how effectively they used the development aid received for the water and sanitation sector. The WIDE is made up of two composite information layers, the Resources (input drivers such as aid received, GDP, water resources, and governance level), and the Progress Outcomes (access to water, access to sanitation, and progress in the two). We also performed econometric analyses to explore the linkages between interventions designed to promote development, and the outcomes from that development process, in the water and sanitation sector. These analyses were further validated by presentation of the WSS sector situation of four case study countries namely, Kenya, Madagascar, Burkina Faso and Uganda.
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spelling CGSpace393562021-10-08T06:02:34Z Development aid and access to water and sanitation in Sub-Saharan Africa Salami, A. Stampini, M. Kamara, A. Sullivan, C. Namara, Regassa E. water resources water policy drinking water water supply sanitation development aid development projects development banks indicators case studies economic aspects Providing safe drinking water and basic sanitation to citizens is one of the major challenges facing the African Governments. The issues of access to safe drinking water and improved sanitation is well articulated and prioritized in the various national, continental, and international policy documents, strategy papers, declarations, and conventions. And yet it is not clear if the provision of sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation has been given the requisite financial and other support by the SSA policy makers and donors. The principal objective of this paper is to compare countries' performance in the water and sanitation sector and analyze how effectively they used the development aid received for the Water and Sanitation sector (WSS). Much has been written on Development Aid Effectiveness, but the focus of attention has often been on how the donors operate, and how the recipients use the money. In this context, the paper utilised an innovative standardized measurement framework known as-the Watsan Index of Development Effectiveness (WIDE) - which compares drivers of progress with results achieved, and ranks African countries by the level of outcome obtained per unit of available input. In particular, how effectively they used the development aid received for the water and sanitation sector. The WIDE is made up of two composite information layers, the Resources (input drivers such as aid received, GDP, water resources, and governance level), and the Progress Outcomes (access to water, access to sanitation, and progress in the two). We also performed econometric analyses to explore the linkages between interventions designed to promote development, and the outcomes from that development process, in the water and sanitation sector. These analyses were further validated by presentation of the WSS sector situation of four case study countries namely, Kenya, Madagascar, Burkina Faso and Uganda. 2011 2014-06-13T13:52:07Z 2014-06-13T13:52:07Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/39356 en Open Access African Development Bank Salami, A.; Stampini, M.; Kamara, A.; Sullivan, C.; Namara, Regassa. 2011. Development aid and access to water and sanitation in Sub-Saharan Africa. Tunis, Tunisia: African Development Bank (AfDB). 37p. (African Development Bank Working Paper 140)
spellingShingle water resources
water policy
drinking water
water supply
sanitation
development aid
development projects
development banks
indicators
case studies
economic aspects
Salami, A.
Stampini, M.
Kamara, A.
Sullivan, C.
Namara, Regassa E.
Development aid and access to water and sanitation in Sub-Saharan Africa
title Development aid and access to water and sanitation in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_full Development aid and access to water and sanitation in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_fullStr Development aid and access to water and sanitation in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_full_unstemmed Development aid and access to water and sanitation in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_short Development aid and access to water and sanitation in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_sort development aid and access to water and sanitation in sub saharan africa
topic water resources
water policy
drinking water
water supply
sanitation
development aid
development projects
development banks
indicators
case studies
economic aspects
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