Publications on transparency, accountability and integrity in water
A selection of available publications on transparency, accountability and integrity in the water and sanitation sector from IRC and partner organisations.
Water briefs for U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre
U4 is an anti-corruption resource centre for donors operated by the CMI Chr. Michelsen Institute in Norway. Recently IRC have prepared three briefs for U4 on the water sector. The briefs cover 1) petty corruption at the consumer/ provider interface, 2) links between corruption and institutional reforms in the sector such as SWAPs and separation of roles and functions, and 3) grand corruption in major infrastructure projects.
Improving Transparency, Integrity and Accountability in Water Supply and Sanitation: Action Learning Experiences
IRC were major contributors to this book, published by the World Bank, which provides a useful guide for diagnosing, analyzing, and preventing corruption in water supply and sanitation. It was developed with a focus on municipalities and Central America but presents tools and methodologies with generic applicability.
Corruption risks in water licensing
A review of corruption risks in water licensing with case studies from Chile and Kazakhstan.
Global Corruption Report 2008: Corruption in the Water Sector
Transparency International (2008). Global Corruption Report 2008 : Corruption in the Water Sector. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press. xxix, 367 p. ISBN 978-0-521-72795-2.
IRC contributed two sections (on links with integrated water resources management by John Butterworth) and the role of donors (by Kathy Shordt and Grit Martinez) to this survey of corruption in the water sector.
In its thematic section, the report demonstrates that corruption is a cause and catalyst for the global water crisis. Corruption affects all aspects of the water sector from water resources management to drinking water services, irrigation and hydropower.
About Corruption and Transparency in the Water and Sanitation Sector
This Thematic Overview Paper (TOP) is a brief overview of issues, approaches and information resources on corruption and transparency in the water and sanitation sector.
Read more or download TOP16_Transp_06.pdf (236 kB)
The importance and risks of identifying corruption in the water sector
Should we be highlighting that corruption is a problem in the water sector, when there is such an urgent need to improve access to water in the developing world?
Decentralisation and the role of NGOs in combating corruption in the WASH sector
This paper by Cor Dietvorst and Bep Oostrom, presented at the 32nd WEDC conference, questions the assumed relation between the decentralisation and privatisation of the provision of WASH services on the one hand and increased transparency and accountability on the other. Practices in India and Africa show that this is often not the case.
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Some further publications on transparency, accountability and integrity that we are currently using and recommend are listed here.
For more extensive listings see the Water Integrity Network library or search the IRC Digital Library.
