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Title
World Bank - Approaches to
Private Participation
in Water Services
a Toolkit
Abstract
This Toolkit aims to help developing country governments that are interested in
using private firms to help expand access to safe water and sanitation services at
reasonable cost. Specifically, it aims to help them and their advisers design arrangements
that maximize the benefits for their countries, provinces, or municipalities.
It is intended to complement other work being undertaken by the World Bank and
others on options for improving public provision of water services.
Instead of identifying a single best approach to addressing the issues it discusses,
the Toolkit presents options and discusses their main advantages and disadvantages.
In so doing, it aims to give advisers and policy makers the information they
need to make decisions, while taking account of local circumstances and the policy
makers’ objectives.
Private participation in water and sanitation (or “water services” for short) can
take many forms. This Toolkit focuses on arrangements that involve a private firm
in the delivery of services to households and businesses, including management
contracts, leases, affermages, concessions, and divestitures. It does not consider
arrangements under which private companies provide bulk water or wastewater
treatment to a government-owned utility.Nor does it consider arrangements under
which private companies provide selected services—such as billing and collection—
to a utility that is still publicly managed.
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