Local Governance for Basic Urban Services - Country cases from Burkina Faso, Egypt and Sri Lanka 2003 - 2007
Updated - Tuesday 24 March 2009
The Basic Urban Services (BUS) Initiative aims to strengthen the capacity of local authorities and their partners in dealing with access to basic urban services, such as water and sanitation, in poorly serviced low-income urban neighbourhoods. These services affect the majority of the urban poor and represent the most common environmental issues needing to be addressed at local level.
This booklet presents a summary of IRC activities within the BUS framework, carried out over a five-year period (2003-2007) through an Agreement of Cooperation with UNCHS (UN-Habitat). The activities formed an integral part of the Second Phase Dutch Support to the Sustainable Cities Programme (SCP), aimed at ensuring that local partners, including municipalities, play an important role in achieving the Millennium Declaration targets for poverty reduction.
This booklet underlines how good local governance – the result of interactions, relationships and networks between different sectors of society – is a precondition for sustainable delivery and improved access to basic urban services by the urban poor. Since governance involves decision-taking and negotiation to determine who gets what, it is politically sensitive and strongly affected by power relationships.
This booklet highlights the major experiences and lessons learnt and the remaining challenges. It also suggests ways forward, in particular in scaling up BUS demonstration projects. It will be of interest not only to those involved in the BUS/SCP project, but also to readers who want to know more about the process, outcomes and future prospects for projects like this.
- - Download:
- TP51_LGBUS_08.pdf (1.2 MB)
- - Series:
- TP no. 51, 56 pages
- - ISBN:
- ISBN 978-90-6687-066-6
- - Price:
- € 9.00
- - Order code:
- TP 51
