Perspective document: relevance of WASH governance to climate change adaptation

As input into the 5th World Water Forum IRC wrote a perspective document, in which it attempts to lay out its understanding of climate change impacts in the sector, and implications for adaptation measures. Rather than considering these impacts in isolation, the paper considers climate change as one of many important and uncertain external factors that can have a profound direct or indirect effect on WASH services delivery. It discusses whether improved WASH governance can play a role in dealing with these uncertainties enhance in climate change adaptation efforts.

Please refer to this paper as: Batchelor, C., Schouten, T., Smits, S., Moriarty, P., and J. Butterworth (2009) Climate change and WASH services delivery: Is improved WASH governance the key to effective mitigation and adaptation?. Perspective paper, prepared for the 5th World Water Forum. IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, the Hague, the Netherlands

14. WASH Services Delivery.pdf (1.3 MB)