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This toolkit is a resource designed to assist practitioners working on the next generation of PSP contracts for smaller water projects.

This report outlines the guidance and recommendations concerning the reform proposals of state owned enterprises operating in the field of water supply and urban sanitation as well as providing guidance/recommendations concerning economic management options for service providers in Vietnam.

This report provides innovative approaches to better understand infrastructure sector performance by focusing on the links between key indicators for private and public utilities, and changes in ownership, regulatory agency governance, and corporate governance, among other dimensions.

This report looks into the relation between the establishment of a regulatory agency and the performance of the electricity sector using regression techniques using a dataset of 220 electric utilities.

This handbook presents detailed, practical guidance on how to conduct quick, mid-level, and in-depth regulatory evaluations with focus on power sector regulation.

This report provides an assessment of the state of regulatory governance in infrastructure industries in Brazil and to suggest possible indicators for future monitoring, while also providing a ranking among Brazillian regulators.

This report summarises the growing involvement of consumer participation in infrastructure regulation in the context of East Asia and the Pacific.

This report looks into developing policies for Angola in the energy, water, transport and communcations sector in order to enhance the private participation in the rebuilding and development in the countries infrastructure.

The second volume of this report and looks at infrastructure statistics in Brazil and international benchmarks, regulatory policy issues, contract negotiations, and gives conclusions and policy implications on these topics.

The goal of this paper is to describe the common features of small scale providers, propose common typology for describing and classifying different types of SPSPs, assess the scale and knowledge of SPSPs and compare patterns and trends in small scale water supply and electricity services.

This report outlines how in recent years Armenia has made significant strides in reforming the water sector by developing policies, enacting laws, and drawing up plans, programs and strategies aimed at improving water service provision

This report outlines benchmarking techniques, in order to improve the effectiveness of monitoring and evaluation in policy design

This benchmarking documents provides a preliminary analysis of infrastructure performance in Lesotho in four major sectors against the relevant group of comparator countries using a new World Bank international data base with objective and perception-based indicators of infrastructure performance from over 200 countries, this document outlines the deficiences in Lesotho in infrastructure.

This study explains why and how the creation of institutionalized citizen engagement will enhance public accountability, performance, and customer responsiveness in the Indian urban water and sanitation sector.

This document carries out analysis in several countries to identify the role of small-scale providers (SSP) of water and sanitation services, as well as why these small scale providers exist and their experiences in Peru.

This paper uses a randomized controlled trial of a matching grant program for firms in the Republic of Yemen to demonstrate the feasibility of conducting experiments with well-designed programs, and to measure whether firms carry out additional innovation that they otherwise would not do.