The report, a joint effort between the World Bank’s Social Development Global Practice and International Finance Corporation (IFC) advisory services, is based on the idea that local engagement, for example...
En esta publicación expertos del sector salud colombiano abordan los seis pilares de los sistemas de salud planteados por la OMS, más un tema transversal, la Ley Estatutaria y el derecho a la salud. Los...
Two commonly-used metrics for assessing progress towards universal health coverage (UHC) involve assessing citizens’ rights to health care and counting the number of people in a financial protection scheme...
Extractive industries (oil, gas, and mining) have the potential to generate significant wealth for developing countries and to serve as important catalysts for growth. They generate large revenues-through...
How do you bring public accountability for millions of dollars to a region where the population is largely uninformed and lacks the savvy to monitor the actions of the authorities? From 2006 to 2011, the...
To find the optimal delivery model for urban water supply and sanitation (WSS) services, one must look beyond ownership structures to the practices and designs that support good performance. Consumer cooperatives...
For 150 years India has made major investments in large-scale water infrastructure, bringing water to areas that previously lacked it. The results have been spectacular, both nationally, through the production...
This paper describes the essential characteristics of consumer cooperatives engaged in the provision of basic services and discusses their applicability as a model for water supply and sanitation service...