Moving down the ladder: governance and sanitation that works for the urban poor
The paper argues that the widespread privatisation of basic services in the 1990s has in turn led to a redefinition of the role of an ‘instrumentalised state’, in which the traditional functions of legislation, regulation, direct provision and investment have been significantly redefined, in many cases bringing the role of the state closely aligned with the creation of “new business opportunities for transnational corporations”
Author Adriana Allen has been invited to write this essay for the IRC symposium Sanitation for the Urban Poor. She is Senior Lecturer Director, DPU Research Programme and MSc in Environment and Sustainable Development at the London University. Adriana Allen has almost 20 years of experience of teaching, research and consultancy in urban and regional environmental planning and management (EPM), institutional development and capacity building for sustainable development.
[Format of the essay is based on WEDC conference paper´s format]
