Water privatisation policy - Ghana

You can find news items on this topic in the following issues of Source Weekly.

Source is a news service provided by IRC.

• Privatisation: British NGO launches “Dirty Aid, Dirty Water” campaign
  (Source Weekly, 11 Apr 2005)
• Ghana: privatisation brings new investment to water company
  (Source Weekly, 27 Jan 2005)
• Dutch MPs reinforce need to keep water public
  (Source Weekly, 26 Aug 2003)
• Ghana: the effects of water privatization on women
  (Source Weekly, 18 Jun 2003)
• Ghana: water privatization raises fears that profits and development cannot marry
  (Source Weekly, 9 Dec 2002)
• Ghana: water privatization not for rural dwellers
  (Source Weekly, 18 Oct 2002)
• Building the capacity of the regulator in Ghana
  (Source Bulletin, 1 Oct 2002)

Several NGOs campaigning against water privatisation in Ghana maintain web pages with oveviews of campaign reports and news:

• Public Citizen - Ghana
  http://www.citizen.org/cmep/Water/cmep_Water/reports/ghana/
• Ghana Coalition Against Privatisation of Water (CAP of Water)
  http://www.isodec.org.gh/campaings/water/
• World Development Movement - Dirty aid, dirty water - Ghana case study
  http://www.wdm.org.uk/campaigns/aid/ghana/index.htm

For an overview of the water sector in Ghana see:

• TREND (2003). Assessment of knowledge management needs and capacity of potential partner resource centres within the water and sanitation sector in Ghana : final report. Kumasi, Ghana, Training Research and Networking for Development (TREND) Group.
  http://www.irc.nl/page/14402

See also the report:

• Smet, J.E.M. ... [et al.] (2004). The feasibility of public private partnership for sustainably water supply to the urban poor in Ghana. Delft, The Netherlands, Netherlands Water Partnership (NWP).
  http://www.nwp.nl/fulltext/fulltexthandler.cfm?fulltextevent=fulltext&objecttypeID=13-1&ID=13050

For a general study on water privisation see the IRC publication:

• Katko, T.S. and Hukka, J.J. (2003). Water privatisation revisited : panacea or pancake?. (Occasional paper series / IRC; no. 33-E). Delft, The Netherlands, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre.
  http://www.irc.nl/content/view/full/6003