Water Supply and Sanitation in Liberia : Turning Finance into Services for 2015 and Beyond
The African Ministers' Council on Water (AMCOW) commissioned the production of a second round of Country Status Overviews (CSOs2) to better understands what underpins progress in water supply and sanitation and what its member governments can do to accelerate that progress across countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). AMCOW delegated this task to the World Bank's water and sanitation program and the African Development Bank who are implementing it in close partnership with United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and World Health Organization (WHO) in over 30 countries across SSA. This CSO2 report has been produced in collaboration with the Government of Liberia and other stakeholders during 2009-10. The analysis aims to help countries assess their own service delivery pathways for turning finance into water supply and sanitation services in each of four subsectors: rural and urban water supply, and rural and urban sanitation, and hygiene. The CSO2 analysis has three main components: a review of past coverage; a costing model to assess the adequacy of future investments; and a scorecard which allows diagnosis of particular bottlenecks along the service delivery pathway. The CSO2's contribution is to answer not only whether past trends and future finance are sufficient to meet sector targets, but what specific issues need to be addressed to ensure finance is effectively turned into accelerated coverage in water supply and sanitation. In this spirit, specific priority actions have been identified through consultation. A synthesis report, available separately, presents best practice and shared learning to help realize these priority actions.
Summary: | The African Ministers' Council on
Water (AMCOW) commissioned the production of a second round
of Country Status Overviews (CSOs2) to better understands
what underpins progress in water supply and sanitation and
what its member governments can do to accelerate that
progress across countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). AMCOW
delegated this task to the World Bank's water and
sanitation program and the African Development Bank who are
implementing it in close partnership with United Nations
Children's Fund (UNICEF) and World Health Organization
(WHO) in over 30 countries across SSA. This CSO2 report has
been produced in collaboration with the Government of
Liberia and other stakeholders during 2009-10. The analysis
aims to help countries assess their own service delivery
pathways for turning finance into water supply and
sanitation services in each of four subsectors: rural and
urban water supply, and rural and urban sanitation, and
hygiene. The CSO2 analysis has three main components: a
review of past coverage; a costing model to assess the
adequacy of future investments; and a scorecard which allows
diagnosis of particular bottlenecks along the service
delivery pathway. The CSO2's contribution is to answer
not only whether past trends and future finance are
sufficient to meet sector targets, but what specific issues
need to be addressed to ensure finance is effectively turned
into accelerated coverage in water supply and sanitation. In
this spirit, specific priority actions have been identified
through consultation. A synthesis report, available
separately, presents best practice and shared learning to
help realize these priority actions. |
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