This paper highlights the importance of issues of local government accountability to citizens, analyses how changes in accountability mechanisms have been accomplished in a specific case, and examines the policy implications. The analysis is based on the case of the city of Gedaref, in Sudan. Read more...
Better accountability improves service delivery performance. Based on more than twenty-five case studies in over twelve countries, this paper describes the attempts of SNV Netherlands Development Organisation to strengthen the accountability capacity of citizens, government and service providers. Read more...
Tien Giang Province's small towns, deemed unserviceable by major water utilities, found a permanent solution to their big water problem in small piped water networks. Read more...
A paper commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, summarises critical water and sanitation sector reform implementation issues by drawing from recent experience in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. It was written by a group of policy advisors of the... Read more...
