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Supporting non state providers of water services

Author(s): Sansom, Kevin

Publisher: LSHTM | WEDC
Place of publication: London and Loughborough
Year: 2006

Series: WELL Studies in Water, Sanitation and Environmental Health Task 2765
Collection(s): WELL

Links:

• http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/wedc/well/

This paper on Non-State Providers (NSPs) of water services in developing countries is one of a series of papers that include sanitation, education and health services, that have been commissioned by DFID Policy Division in London. Each paper considers the following key issues:

• The scale, importance and comparative advantage of non state provider (NSP) activity in each of the sectors;
• The limits and potential for expanding state purchase of services through contracting of NSPs;
• The limits and potential for donors to directly support NSPs to deliver services to underserved groups
• The limits and potential for creating an enabling environment that facilitates NSPs to deliver services to the poor.

These topics are considered under the main section headings of this paper along with specific questions that were posed for the study and are highlighted in each section.

This paper builds on a previous multi-sectoral DFID funded study on Non-State Providers of Basic Services conducted in 2004 by IDD, Birmingham University, WEDC, Loughborough University, CIE, Sussex University and the LSHTM, that included three case studies from Africa and three from South Asia.

The diversity of different types of water NSPs in the rural and urban sectors that emerge to fill different market niches are discussed in this paper.

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