1. Lessons from the Water & Sanitation Sector How WSS can contribute to Decentralization, Governance,and Local-Government capacity building Stockholm August 2009

5. Increased management capacity (local level).

6. Assigning roles & responsibilities.

8. Separate policy, regulation and ops

9. Clearly assigned powers of levels

11. Performance management

12. Reliable information for monitoring

14. Hard budget constraint

15. Both revenue & expenditure reform

17. Demands sound analysis of political economy.

18. Get the focus right:

19. Systems and policies, not just training at local level.

20. Stay evidence based.

21. Practical experience needed: Issue-specific (e.g. sanitation) or integrated or both.

22. Opportunities to influence other sectors.

23. Peer learning.

24. Harmonization among international agencies to support government policies.How development partners can supportdecentralization

26. Increased infrastructure investment but no 24/7, poor quality services.

27. Customers use alternative providers & coping infrastructure: the poor continue to struggle.

29. Fiscal & policy incentives for reform.

30. Strategy development at all tiers.

31. City level assessments & planning.

32. Provider performance improvement.

33. Local-level capacity building.

35. Helped design $3bn JNNURM grant as fiscal support for service delivery reform.

36. National Urban Sanitation Policy design on basis of sector assessment & consultations.

37. Profile of urban priorities tangibly raised.

39. City governance arrangements, i.e. state-city; city-provider-customer/citizen relationships.

40. Financial capacity: cost recovery, municipal borrowing, accountable financial management.

42. Resource ,capacity, delivery challenges for new structures.

44. Pokia’s do assessments, sanitation mapping and participatory prioritization.

45. City Sanitation Strategy (CSS) within government planning & budgeting system, not parallel process.

47. 650 small towns have 4.1 million inhabitants (2003).

48. Intervention in 9 localities.

49. localities population: from 5.000 to 25.000 inhabitants.

52. STPP management model included in W&S Legislation.

53. STPP alternative technologies proposal included in National Edification Norms.

54. 6 out of 9 new models remained with new local authorities.

55. 6 Peruvian specialized operators trained by the STPP and 6 from PRONASAR.2009New management models still in force in 5 communities.

57. Entry point of peri-urban strategy for improved sanitation in 24 cities.

58. Include cross-cutting variable of impact of climate change on the poor.

59. Support of strategy addresses.

60. local government capacity.

61. Responsiveness to most vulnerable.

64. Peer to peer learning of good practices.

65. Replicating good practices.

66. Peer reviewing for validating replication.

68. Decentralizationa means to an end Avoid ‘ideological’ position but programmatically explore what decentralization can offer Responsive governance To do the right things – deliver services consistent with citizen preferences Responsible governance To do it right. Costing less and working better. Benchmarking with the best. Accountable Governance To be accountable to citizens. Legal institutional framework for in-between elections accountability e.g. citizens’ charter, recall etc…

70. Clear ownership and separation of roles vital.

71. Performance accountability through outcome budgeting and hard fiscal constraints.

72. Poor communities and customers need special attention as not all voters are users of service.

73. Four key modules: governance, finance, planning, service delivery.