WEDC
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Sanitation for Primary Schools in Africa
R.A. Reed, Rod Shaw, Ken Chatterton
Produced as part of WEDC's contribution to the International Year of Sanitation 2008, this book provides easy-to-use tools for assessing sanitation, water supply and hygiene facilities in primary schools in Africa sothat appropriate decisions can be made about sanitation improvements. It also presen...
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Services for the Urban Poor: Section 1. Guiding Principles for Policymakers, Planners and Engineers
Guiding Principles is aimed primarily at policymakers but is also of direct relevance to urban engineers and planners. It presents an overview of principles and offers guidance for the development of an action planning approach to improve services for the urban poor within a policy context which sup...
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Services for the Urban Poor: Section 2. Working with Partners - Guidance for Policymakers, Planners and Engineers
Working with Partners is aimed primarily at policymakers but is also of direct relevance to urban engineers and planners. It reviews the roles of different stakeholders in service provision, including government, civil society and external agencies. A number of common constraints are identified and...
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Services for the Urban Poor: Section 3. Action Planning Guidelines for Planners and Engineers
Action Planning Guidelines: Parts 3a, 3b and 3c is aimed primarily at senior local programme managers, including urban engineers and planners. It proposes a framework for action planning to develop local neighbourhood plans and area service plans for networked infrastructure which focuses on the imp...
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Services for the Urban Poor: Section 4. Technical Guidelines for Planners and Engineers
Technical Guidelines: Parts 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d, 4e and 4f is aimed primarily at urban engineers and planners. It provides a range of different tools for detailed planning and guidelines for design. The tools cover different technical options for service improvements to urban poor areas, including 'handy...
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Services for the Urban Poor 5 From Action Plans to Implementation
From Action Plans to Implementation is aimed primarily at urban engineers. It provides guidance on taking local action plans forward to the stage of implementing service improvements at the field level, including administrative procedures for technical and financial approval and the different option...
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Services for the Urban Poor 6 Operation and Maintenance
Operation and Maintenance is aimed primarily at urban engineers and planners. It presents different strategies for managing O&M and considers how these can be applied to produce detailed plans for improved operation and maintenance at the neighbourhood, Ward and Municipal levels.
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Serving All Urban Cunsumers: A Marketing Approach to Water Services in Low- and Middle-income Countries: Book 2 - Guidance Notes for Managers
This book is one of a series of six publications that consider how water utilities working with other key stakeholders, can meet the needs and demands of urban water consumers - including the poor - through developing an understanding of the needs and demands of all consumer groups, and by the adapt...
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Serving All Urban Cunsumers: A Marketing Approach to Water Services in Low- and Middle-income Countries: Book 4 - Sample strategic marketing plan
This sample strategic marketing plan (SMP) for Mombasa in Kenya has been completed as part of urban water sector marketing research that was lead by Water and Engineering Development Centre (WEDC) and IWE, Cranfield University and funded by DFID (UK). The purpose of the Mombasa urban water sector re...
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Serving All Urban Cunsumers: A Marketing Approach to Water Services in Low- and Middle-income Countries: Book 3 PREPP
This book is one of a series of six publications that consider how water utilities working with other key stakeholders, can meet the needs and demands of urban water consumers - including the poor - through developing an understanding of the needs and demands of all consumer groups, and by the adapt...