Programme, presentations and papers
Programme, presentations and papers -abstracts as well as full papers- presented at the IRC symposium ‘Sanitation for the Urban Poor: Partnerships and Governance’, 19 – 21 November 2008, Delft, the Netherlands.
Municipal benchmarking and service delivery performance
Author: Farooq Khan. After promulgation of new system of local government in Pakistan under the Local Government Ordinance (LGO) of 2001, the municipal service delivery was entrusted to the newly established entities called “Tehsil Municipal Administration” (TMA). TMAs have been declared as body corporate responsible to plan and implement plans and projects according to their resources and the council’s vision.
The challenges of meeting the water and sanitation MDGs in the smaller urban centres in the Lake Victoria Region
Author: Graham Alabaster. The implementation of the Lake Victoria Water and Sanitation Initiative (LVWATSAN) started in June, 2006 in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. The focus of the initiative has been to rehabilitate and improve physical infrastructure in the 7 pilot towns, while at the same time building the necessary institutional capacity to improve water and sanitation governance and ensure the long term sustainability, so protecting Lake Victoria.
Sanitation challenges for a new municipal assembly in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana
Authors: A. Norström, E. S. Owusu & D. Van Rooijen. Accra, the capital of Ghana, is one of the fastest growing cities in West Africa and the boundaries of urban Accra have long since expanded beyond the administrative borders of Accra Metropolitan Area. One way to deal with the fast growing population in some areas has been to create new administrative units, i.e. divide large administrative enclaves into smaller ones.
