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Water Partnership Program : Strategic Action Plan 2012-2016
World Bank - 2014
Water is a fundamental platform for economic and social development, and contributes to reducing multiple dimensions of poverty. It is essential to food and energy security, industrial growth, and the protection of ecosystems. Water has been going through unprecedented pressures as growing...
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Strategic Environmental Assessment : Improving Water Resources Governance and Decision Making
World Bank - 2012
The Sustainable Development Network (SDN) calls for elevating the environment into upstream processes such as policy, programmatic, and investment dialogue. In its 2002 environment strategy, the Bank committed to use strategic environmental assessments (SEAs), an environmental planning tool for...
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Institutional and policy analysis of river basin management : the Jaguaribe river basin, Ceara, Brazil
Johnsson, Rosa Maria Formiga - 2005
"The authors describe and analyze water resources reform and decentralization of river basin management in the state of … Ceara, Northeast Brazil, the poorest part of the country. The Jaguaribe river basin is located entirely within the state of …, groundwater management, and control. The creation of sub-basin committees and user commissions has increased stakeholder …
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Institutional frameworks in successful water markets : Brazil, Spain, and Colorado, USA
Kemper, Karin E. (contributor); Mariño, Manuel (contributor) - 1999
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Water policy and water markets : selected papers and proceedings from the World Bank's Ninth Annual Irrigation and Drainage Seminar held in Annapolis, Maryland, December 8-10, 1992
Le Moigne, Guy J.-M. (contributor) - Irrigation and Drainage Seminar <(9th:1992:Annapolis, Md.)> - 1994
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Local Financing of Water Utilities : Challenges and Opportunities - The Case of Peru
World Bank - 2012
This report identifies opportunities and challenges for local financing of water utilities in Peru and suggests recommendations for removing barriers and creating incentives for scaling-up local financing to local water utilities. It was developed with an understanding that meeting the...
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The institutional economics of water : a cross-country analysis of institutions and performance
Saleth, R. Maria - 2004
1. Water challenge : an institutional diagnosis -- 2. Understanding institutions : nature, performance, and change -- 3. Existing literature : approaches, attempts, and limitations -- 4. Evaluating institutional linkages : towards an alternative methodology -- 5. Analytical framework and...
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Decentralization and Service Delivery in Albania : Governance in the Water Sector
World Bank - 2013
This review of the water sector in Albania was prepared as a background paper to the World Bank s Country Partnership Strategy for Albania for 2011-2014. It draws on past analytical work on decentralization in Albania as well as relevant World Bank-financed operations such as the Water Sector...
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Crowdsourcing Water Quality Data : A Conceptual Framework
World Bank - 2016
Using mobile phone technologies coupled with water quality testing, there is great opportunity to increase the awareness of water quality throughout rural and urban communities in developing countries. Whether the focus is on empowering citizens with information about the quality of water they...
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Watershed Management and Landscape Restoration Opportunities Assessment for Sioni Reservoir Watershed System in Georgia
World Bank - 2022
This assessment report presents the results of a study focused on the Sioni Reservoir watershed, which is subject to seasonal sediment loads affecting the sustainability of water for hydropower generation and irrigation. The study reveals the major causes of landscape degradation within target...
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