Title:
Political Economy of Sanitation
Political Economy of Sanitation
Start Date:
September 2008
September 2008
Completion Date:
June 2010
June 2010
Client(s):
World Bank
World Bank
Funder(s):
World Bank
World Bank
Location:
International
International
Key Contact:
Sabine Garbarino
Sabine Garbarino
Summary:
OPM was contracted by the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) and the World Bank to undertake a Global Economic and Sector Work (ESW) Study on the Political Economy of Sanitation in Brazil, India, Indonesia, and Senegal. The purpose of the study is to systematically understand and provide practical advice to World Bank Task Team Leaders and other sanitation practitioners to help them better manage stakeholder relations and effectively manoeuvre within the complex institutional relationships of the sanitation sector in order to enhance the design, implementation, and effectiveness of operations that provide pro-poor sanitation investments and services.
The study was conducted through a qualitative analysis of stakeholders, institutions, impacts, risks, and opportunities that was linked to processes and policy debate. Four country case studies were chosen purposively by the World Bank and WSP and represent a range of sanitation contexts. The Brazil case study analysed the national-level political economy dynamics of urban sanitation investment over the lifetime of the Water and Sanitation Sector Modernization Project (known in Brazil as Programa de Modernização do Setor Saneamento, PMSS). The India case study looks at the political drivers for the success of the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) in rural Maharashtra, contrasting it with earlier, failed attempts to implement TSC in most of the country’s states. In Indonesia the analysis focused on the reasons behind the recent increase in government interest in urban sanitation provision. Finally, the Senegal case study took the water and sanitation reforms at the end of the 1990s as the starting point of the analysis and explored political economy factors that explained the increased investment in urban sanitation in the capital, Dakar.
OPM was contracted by the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) and the World Bank to undertake a Global Economic and Sector Work (ESW) Study on the Political Economy of Sanitation in Brazil, India, Indonesia, and Senegal. The purpose of the study is to systematically understand and provide practical advice to World Bank Task Team Leaders and other sanitation practitioners to help them better manage stakeholder relations and effectively manoeuvre within the complex institutional relationships of the sanitation sector in order to enhance the design, implementation, and effectiveness of operations that provide pro-poor sanitation investments and services.
The study was conducted through a qualitative analysis of stakeholders, institutions, impacts, risks, and opportunities that was linked to processes and policy debate. Four country case studies were chosen purposively by the World Bank and WSP and represent a range of sanitation contexts. The Brazil case study analysed the national-level political economy dynamics of urban sanitation investment over the lifetime of the Water and Sanitation Sector Modernization Project (known in Brazil as Programa de Modernização do Setor Saneamento, PMSS). The India case study looks at the political drivers for the success of the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) in rural Maharashtra, contrasting it with earlier, failed attempts to implement TSC in most of the country’s states. In Indonesia the analysis focused on the reasons behind the recent increase in government interest in urban sanitation provision. Finally, the Senegal case study took the water and sanitation reforms at the end of the 1990s as the starting point of the analysis and explored political economy factors that explained the increased investment in urban sanitation in the capital, Dakar.
