Approaches to private participation in water and sanitation: a toolkit

This toolkit aims to assist governments in developing countries that are interested in using private participation to help expand access to safe water and sanitation services at reasonable cost. Instead of identifying a single approach, the toolkit illustrates policy design options to support arrangements that deliver good quality water services to the poor, discussing the main advantages and disadvantages of the several options. In doing this the toolkit also helps governments to see whether private participation might be part of the solution to problems in the water sector. Sophie Trémolet was a main contributor, especially on up-stream market reforms and case studies of existing PSP and was an overall reviewer for the publication.