Water & Sanitation

Water and sanitation services have specific features that complicate their provision and management. They are essential services characterized by natural monopoly, and their assets are difficult and expensive to develop and monitor. This toolkit aims to assist governments in developing countries that are interested in using private participation to help expand access to safe water and sanitation services at reasonable cost.

Instead of identifying a single approach, the toolkit illustrates policy design options to support arrangements that deliver good quality water services to the poor, discussing the main advantages and disadvantages of the several options. In doing this the toolkit also helps governments to see whether private participation might be part of the solution to problems in the water sector.

Download the toolkit (PDF, 1.6MB).