Search results: Main themes: Financing
- Water Financing Partnership Facility: Annual Report 2012
- Asian Development Bank (ADB). February 2013
- Established in November 2006, the Water Financing Partnership Facility (WFPF) aims to provide additional financial and knowledge resources from development partners to support the implementation of Asian Development Bank's (ADB) Water Financing Program and help achieve the Program¿s targeted outcomes. This Annual Report covers the period January to December 2012 and presents the performance for the year against the annual work program.
- Geographical coverage (region): Asia
- Main themes: Financing
- Finance Policies and Procedures Manual. Volume 1
- United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat). January 2013
- This manual is part of a Utility Management Series for Small Towns. This volume is intended to provide guidance to those engaged in execution of finance and accounts function in water utilities for systematic and consistency in their financial work. The manual comprises of methods and measurers adopted by a utility to safeguard its assets, secure the accuracy and reliability of its accounting data and promote operational efficiency. The manual also provides an introduction to finance policies and procedures, role of key officers in financing and accounting fu...[Read full description]
- Geographical coverage (region): Global
- Main themes: Accounting, Financing
- Information brief on Financing
- UN-Water Decade Programme on Advocacy and Communication (UNW-DPAC). January 2013
- For the purposes of the International Year of Water Cooperation (IYC) and the International Annual UN-Water Zaragoza Conference 2012/2013 "Preparing for the 2013 International Year. Water Cooperation: Making it Happen!" which took place in Zaragoza, Spain, from 8 to 10 1 2013, UNW-DPAC has produced a series of information briefs on different issues and tools on water cooperation. This brief provides information on financing water cooperation: what are the main challenges in financing water cooperation processes? Which tools are available for financing water ...[Read full description]
- Geographical coverage (region): Global
- Main themes: Financing, Water cooperation
- Planning, Connecting and Financing Cities-Now. Priorities for City leaders
- World Bank. January 2013
- This report provides a framework to help city leaders make informed decisions for sustainable development in their cities. What must be done to improve living conditions, especially in slums and hazard-prone areas? To expand the coverage and quality of basic infrastructure services (water, sanitation)? To manage the city"s physical form? These are some of the questions this report tries to respond.
- Geographical coverage (region): Global
- Main themes: Financing, Infrastructure, Land management, Slums, Tariffs, Urban areas, Urbanization, Water services, Water supply
- A New Angle on Sovereign Credit Risk. E-RISC: Environmental Risk Integration in Sovereign Credit Analysis
- United Nations Environment Programme Financing Initiative (UNEPFI). November 2012
- This report addresses how and why natural resource, including water resources, and environmental risks are becoming financially material for sovereign credit risk, not just in the medium term, but even in the short run. The E-RISC (Environmental Risk in Sovereign Credit analysis) methodology focuses on the development of metrics and methods for quantifying natural resource and environmental risks so they can be incorporated into sovereign credit risk assessments. It assesses how growing natural resource scarcity and environmental degradation can impact a coun...[Read full description]
- Geographical coverage (region): Global
- Main themes: Financing, Investments, Risk management
- First Environmental Performance Review of Turkmenistan
- Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). November 2012
- The first Environmental Performance Review of Turkmenistan covers 13 issues of importance to Turkmenistan related to policymaking, planning and implementation, the financing of environmental policies and projects and the integration of environmental concerns into economic sectors, in particular the sustainable management and protection of water resources, waste management, air pollution, forestry, biodiversity and protected areas, energy and climate change.
- Geographical coverage (region): Asia
- Main themes: Biodiversity, Climate change, Development cooperation, Economic instruments, Education, Environment, Financing, Legal aspects, Monitoring, Participation, Wastewater, Water management, Water policy, Water quality
- First Environmental Performance Review of Turkmenistan. Synopsis
- Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). November 2012
- Synopsis of first Environmental Performance Review of Turkmenistan.
- Geographical coverage (region): Asia
- Main themes: Biodiversity, Climate change, Development cooperation, Economic instruments, Education, Environment, Financing, Legal aspects, Monitoring, Participation, Wastewater, Water management, Water policy, Water quality
- Investing in Water Infrastructure: Capital, Operations and Maintenance
- World Bank. November 2012
- This paper outlines the major challenges related to financing the gap in global water infrastructure, including those systems that provide urban and rural water supply, and sanitation and irrigation services. The paper synthesizes the extensive body of literature on this subject, providing some examples of historical trends and proposing a reform agenda to assist countries in weathering the current financial climate. Section 1 introduces the linkages between water infrastructure and growing global challenges, including food and energy security as well as cli...[Read full description]
- Geographical coverage (region): Global
- Main themes: Financing, Infrastructure, Investments, Nonrevenue water, Private sector participation (PSP), Public-private partnerships (PPP), Tariffs, Water operators, Water supply, Water User Associations
- Second Environmental Performance Review of Albania
- Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). November 2012
- The second Environmental Performance Review (EPR) of Albania takes stock of the progress made by Albania in the management of its environment since the country was first reviewed in 2002. It assesses the implementation of the recommendations contained in the first review. This second EPR also covers 10 issues of importance to Albania related to policymaking framework for environmental protection and sustainable development compliance and enforcement mechanisms; monitoring, information, public participation and education; environmental international agreements...[Read full description]
- Geographical coverage (region): Europe
- Main themes: Biodiversity, Climate change, Development cooperation, Economic instruments, Education, Environment, Financing, Legal aspects, Monitoring, Participation, Wastewater, Water management, Water policy, Water quality
- Second Environmental Performance Review of Albania. Synopsis
- Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). November 2012
- Synopsis of second Environmental Performance Review of Albania.
- Geographical coverage (region): Europe
- Main themes: Biodiversity, Climate change, Development cooperation, Economic instruments, Education, Environment, Financing, Legal aspects, Monitoring, Participation, Wastewater, Water management, Water policy, Water quality