Dear friends and colleagues, As an input to the 13th session of the Commission on Sustainable Development in New York the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) commissioned a study on "Community-driven development for water and sanitation in urban areas" and its contribution to meeting the Millennium Development Goal targets.
This study is a result of a collaboration between the WSSCC and the Human Settlements Programme at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). It was written by David Satterthwaite with Gordon McGranahan and Diana Mitlin Summary of the content Community organizations working with local NGOs have been responsible for many of the most cost-effective initiatives to improve and extend provision for water and sanitation to low-income urban households. Some have achieved considerable scale, especially where water and sanitation utilities and local governments work with them. Many of the initiatives that improved and extended provision for water and sanitation were not 'water and sanitation' projects but initiatives through which urban poor households developed better quality and more secure housing and housing finance services that helped them do so. This publication describes many such initiatives and discusses their relevance for meeting the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target for water and sanitation. It includes chapters on: - Community-driven improvements in provision - Alternative means to support improvements in provision for water and sanitation - Financing water and sanitation improvements through loans and subsidies - Engaging with small-scale private water and sanitation providers - Tools and methods that support community-driven improvements for water and sanitation Order your hard copy of this new publication from Cora Cipriano at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or download the pdf from www.wsscc.org/dataweb.cfm?code=590 --- You are currently subscribed to water-l as: archive@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Subscribe to Linkages Update to receive our fortnightly, html-newsletter on what's new in the international environment and sustainable development arena: http://www.iisd.ca/email/subscribe.htm - Archives of Water-L and Water-L News are available online at: http://www.iisd.ca/email/water-L.htm - Archives of Climate-L and Climate-L News are available online at: http://www.iisd.ca/email/climate-L.htm
