Something I’m looking into at the moment with regards to an upcoming presentation, but I have interest for other reasons.
It turns out that PUPs though rarely mentioned are something that the Japanese have experience of and have provided assistance to a fair few countries on.
I’m wondering if the PUP model could be used to transfer knowledge on how to assist utilities in pro-poor approaches which look at expanding their coverage into low income areas?
Here are some other references
Japanese sources
Their list of projects:
http://www.jwwa.or.jp/index.html – 2008-9 (including Bolivia) and 2009-10
Japanese regional waterworks bureaus involved in international PUPs:
Japan International Corporation of Welfare Services http://www.jicwels.or.jp/english/index.html
Satoko Kishimoto, Water Justice Project on Japan’s PUPs
JICA water project in Bolivia – unsure if it is PUP (don’t think so) http://www.jica.go.jp/project/bolivia/0800574/pdf/ASVI_02.pdf
http://www.jica.go.jp/project/spanish/bolivia/0800574/news/general/20100310.html
http://www.jica.go.jp/project/english/subject/water/03_1.html
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International institutions
- ADB – Water financing partnership facility http://beta.adb.org/sectors/water/funds
- GWOPA – Global Water Operators Partnerships Alliance, EPM, great website http://www.gwopa.org/operator-profiles/2936-empresas-publicas-de-medellin
- Water and Sanitation Supply Cooperative Council WSSCC – summary on Global Water Operator Partnerships Alliance (GPOBA)
- IADB (Inter American Development Bank) IADB WOPs
- IWA International Water Association http://www.iwahq.org/3y
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Movements/Campaigners
- World Water Week Blog Satoko Kishimoto features quite a lot here, he works for the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam
- WaterLinks – WOPs in Asia (Linking organisation in the region)
- International Water Week Amsterdam happening 29 Oct- 4 Nov 2011
Think tanks
Uni of Greenwich PSIRU (already sourced many)
sophieayling.org 