Achieving Financial Sustainability and Recovering Costs in Bank Financed Water Supply and Sanitation and Irrigation Projects
- International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), World Bank Water Partnership Program (WPP). June 2012
- This preliminary background Note is divided into four parts: 1) A "history" of the call for financial sustainability and cost recovery, and the parallel documenting of the lack of progress; 2) An outline of options to be considered for achieving financial sustainability of Water Supply and Sanitation (WSS) service providers and recovering WSS service costs through tariffs. 3) A discussion on what makes financial sustainability of irrigation projects different from WSS projects; and 4) A summary of recommendations to teams involved in the identification, preparation, appraisal and supervision of water projects and of practical measures and actions.
- Geographical coverage: Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Oceania, Armenia, Australia, Chile, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Niger, Murray-Darling River Basin
- Main themes: Cost recovery, Fee collection, Financing, Irrigation, Sanitation, Water supply
- Main target audience: Financial community, Practitioners, Project managers, Project planners, Stakeholders, Water managers
- Main purpose: Advocacy, Guidance
- Type of resource: Guidelines, Recommendations, Working paper
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