'Waterlines' Journal dedicated to scaling up rural water supply

The context of Waterlines’ special issue on scaling up is provided by Ton Schouten and Patrick Moriarty of IRC, who look at the origins of scaling up, and ask what its scope is as well as what is needed to implement it. Peter Sinclair takes up the baton, showing how WaterAid is approaching scaling up in its programme work. Then Jennifer Davis of MIT and Param Iyer of the World Bank consider some of the main bottlenecks that stand in the way of scaling up water supply services. Sohrab Baghri and Simon Heap of the international NGO Plan then describe the action research on scaling up in Ethiopia and the Philippines that Plan has initiated together with IRC.

Case studies are provided on South Africa’s Alfred Nzo municipality (by Jean de la Harpe), on the massive Swajaldhara programme in India (by Viju James), on support for community managed water supply systems in the US (by Stephen Gasteyer) and on a successful scaling up programme in Tanzania, WAMMA (by Brian Mathew).

Crossfire stays within the scaling up theme with Jean de la Harpe and Fred Rosensweig grappling with some of the thorny issues that arise in financing scaling up.

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