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Policy Brief: Preventing Corruption in the Water Sector

admin — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:56:43 +0000

The policy brief “Preventing Corruption in the Water Sector”, provides policy makers with concise analysis on how to identify corruption risks in the water sector and offers key recommendations to that can secure political commitments to promote water integrity, transparency and good governance. It is produced jointly by the UNDP Water Governance Facility at SIWI and the Water Integrity Network.

Published in 2012

Promoting Transparency, Integrity and Accountability in the Water and Sanitation Sector in Uganda

admin — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:45:43 +0000

Uganda has placed the fight against corruption high on the development agenda by establishing a range of anti-corruption institutions and strategies. The Uganda National Integrity Survey III, released in 2008 by the Inspectorate of Government, recommended that if Uganda was to make real progress in tackling corruption nationwide, individual sectors would need to undertake sector-specific studies to identify best practice and facilitate scaling-up of anti-corruption efforts. In that year, the Good Governance Sub-Sector Working Group, chaired by the Ministry of Water and Environment, commissioned a Water Integrity Study to establish how citizens in both rural and urban areas, contractors, private operators, local government officials and staff from the main water utility experience integrity in the provision of water services. The study would also facilitate development of an updated action plan to address integrity risks. This note describes the key ingredients to putting in place a nationwide good governance action plan in Ugandas water sector, the challenges to be overcome and lessons learned to date. The implications for practice are discussed from the perspectives of policy makers, regulators and ombudsmen, development partners, water service providers and civil society actors. This provides guidance for the replication of best practice by stakeholders in other countries and sectors.

Mapping of Integrity and Accountability in Water Activities and Relevant Capacities in the SADC Region

admin — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:38:18 +0000

Improved integrity and accountability in water-sector institutions for public and private governance and economic transactions constitutes an important tool for countries and local governments to achieve poverty reduction and to improve sustainable management of water resources.

This study maps some of the processes, institutions, organisations, laws, policies and projects active in promoting transparency, accountability and integrity in the water sector of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, and concludes with a series of recommendations broadly centred on developing political support, capacity building and integration of water sector initiatives.

SIWI at Fresh Water Governance for Sustainable Development conference

Nora — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:43:18 +0000

SIWIs Håkan Tropp gave key-note speech at Fresh Water Governance for Sustainable Development conference.

Dr Håkan Tropp, Director of the UNDP Water Governance Facility (WGF) at SIWI, gave a key-note presentation on Water Integrity at the International Conference on Fresh Water Governance For Sustainable Development in Drakensberg, South Africa, this Monday September 5. Dr Tropp was also a panelist in the workshop on Promoting Water Integrity in the SADC-region that was held during the conference.

The international conference brings together policy makers, water managers, scientists and civil society, in a forum where new ideas be for the future can be shared, nurtured and developed in order to address the increasing pressure on freshwater resources across the globe. The conference is organised by the Water Research Commission and the Department of Water Affairs in South Africa, and WGF is part of the organising committee for the conference.

Click here to access Dr Tropp’s full presentation “Water Integrity – Where From and Where to?”

Contact
Dr. Håkan Tropp
Director, UNDP Water Governance Facility at SIWI
Phone: +46 8 121 360 40
Email: hakan.tropp@siwi.org

Regional capacity building programme on water integrity in sub-Saharan Africa

admin — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 09:18:40 +0000

In 2008 the UNDP-Water Governance Facility at SIWI (WGF), together with Cap-Net and WaterNet, mapped regional and national policies, institutions, laws and regulations, and active projects to promote transparency, accountability and integrity in the water sector in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. One of the key recommendations of the study was to build capacity in water integrity for staff at regional, national and local level, including various river basin organizations, as well as government and municipal entities. This need for capacity building was also reflected by the 2008 Global Corruption Report in the water sector, and expressed through the 2009 Water Integrity Network (WIN) surveys.

Funded by the Swedish Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), this current project will implement a Regional Capacity Building Programme over a 3 year period to promote and enhance water integrity in sub-Saharan Africa. It is expected that increasing water integrity will directly impact on socio-economic development and poverty reduction. Indeed, unethical practices reduce economic growth, discourage investments, violate human dignity, increase health risks and compromise efforts to reduce poverty. The implementing partners are (1) WGF (2) the Stockholm International Water Institute – SIWI, (3) the Water Integrity Network – WIN, and (4) Cap-Net in collaboration with WaterNet.

Through partnership with ECOWAS, EAC-Lake Victoria Basin Commission and SADC, the programme targets water sector stakeholders (those responsible for the management of water resources and for integrated water supply and sanitation services) at regional, basin and national levels who are responsible for regulation, controlling, planning, policy development and decision making. It also targets stakeholders that are less directly involved in water management, but have a key role in strengthening or demanding accountability, such as water users associations, advocacy organisations and the media.

Generally, ECOWAS, EAC and SADC countries have committed themselves to integrity and accountability through good governance and the promotion of transparency and accountability. Their secretariats, together with the implementing partners of this programme, will reinforce the regional efforts to bolster integrity at all levels in the water management and service delivery chain.

Project info

Link and resrouces: http://www.watergovernance.org/integrity/SSA
Project team: James Leten, Maria Jacobson, Marianne Kjellen, Ana Cascao, Rami Abdel Rahman
Client and partners: ECOWAS, EAC-Lake Victoria Basin Commission, and SADC. Implemented by Water Integrity Network (WIN), Capnet and WaterNet
Financed by Sida
Timeline: July 2011-June 2014

Corruption Risks in Water Licensing With case studies from Chile and Kazakhstan

admin — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:42:23 +0000

With growing water scarcity in an increasing number of countries, there is a significantly greater risk of corruption in the water licensing process. Water resource licensing and other allocation mechanisms are important because they underpin who gets access to water and provide a means to manage water fairly, efficiently and sustainably.

This report explores the nature of the risk using a 2007 field study of Chile and Kazakhstan as case studies for risk mitigation.