OECD Studies on Water Water Governance in African Cities
The COVID-19 pandemic has acted as a magnifying glass on pressing water and sanitation challenges in African cities, stressing and widening inequalities, especially for the 56% of the urban population living in informal settlements, lacking basic handwashing facilities, and relying on public water p...
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Paris :
OECD Publishing
2021.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Preface
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and acronyms
- Executive summary
- 1 Water security and key megatrends in African cities
- Key water security challenges in African cities: The state of play
- Water abundance and floods
- Insufficient access to water and sanitation
- Water pollution
- Water scarcity and droughts
- Key megatrends affecting African cities
- Climate change
- Urbanisation
- Demographic change
- COVID-19 and water security in African cities
- References
- Notes
- 2 Mapping key water policies and institutions in African cities
- Dedicated water policies at the national and local levels in Africa
- National Water Policy status in Africa
- Local Water Policy status in Africa
- Social and pro-poor measures in water policies in Africa
- Institutions in charge of water at the national and local levels in Africa
- Water and sanitation provision responsibility commonly centralised at the national level in Africa
- Characteristics of water and sanitation utilities in Africa
- A great diversity of water and sanitation access forms in African cities
- References
- Note
- 3 Water governance challenges in African cities
- Managing water at the appropriate scale
- Ensuring cross-sectoral policy coherence
- Land use
- Public health
- Solid waste management
- Improving water-related data, monitoring and evaluation
- Addressing the funding gap
- Addressing transparency and integrity issues
- Strengthening stakeholder engagement
- References
- Annex A. OECD Survey on Water Governance
- OECD Survey questionnaire
- 1. Megatrends and water risks
- 2. Institutions
- 3. Policies
- 4. Financing
- 5. Stakeholder engagement
- 6. Data, monitoring and evaluation
- 7. Obstacles
- 8. Future priorities.
