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Title
Switch - Governance of water supply and sanitation in Belo Horizonte,
Brazil: an assessment of the relationship between the
municipality and the service provider
Abstract
One understands that in order to guarantee access to water supply, sanitation, solid wastes
management and storm water management services to everyone, it is not possible to continue
prioritizing the management of these services only in the technological side, as it has been
happening historically in Brazil. These actions are in the public policies sphere and therefore
should be monitored and assessed to enable possible track corrections and the accountability.
Scientific researches relative to sanitation management as public policy are scarce. In this
paper it is proposed an analysis of the governance aspects of the Water Supply and Sanitation
Service – WSS in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in a systematized approach of principles of the
public policy, as science, and of the law. The main objective is to better understand
specifically the relationship between the service provider and the local power, by means of the
assessment of the contractual instrument established by the parts in compliance with the
Municipal Sanitation Policy – MSP, a municipal law that regulates the sector. It is an analysis
with relative capacity of generalization, given the similar context of this case with others of
many Brazilian municipalities and of developing countries. The hypothesis explored in this
study is that, in developing countries the existence of a legally regulated environment is
insufficient to assure a relationship between titleholder and service provider of WSS in
compliance with the principles of this regulation.
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