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New Publication: ‘Making It Flow: Learning From Commonwealth Experience In Water And Electricity Provision’

30 March 2005

Making it Flow
The case studies were commissioned to expand the debate on essential service delivery, and inform on policies and practices around the Commonwealth.
Increasing access to basic social and infrastructural services is a priority around the world. The case studies in this book were commissioned by the Commonwealth Foundation to expand the debate on essential service delivery, and inform on policies and practices around the Commonwealth. They include examples of water and electricity provision in Bangladesh, Canada, Ghana, Guyana, India, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, and Uganda.

Notwithstanding the diversity of the case studies, a common thread among them is how to keep people's needs at the centre of decision-making about essential service delivery. The different effects of policies on various groups in society, including women and the poor, are also addressed.

An overview chapter makes connections between basic service provision and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

This book highlights issues emerging from the case studies: utility reform, including pricing subsidies; the importance of community awareness; and the implications of decentralisation. It examines challenges to private provision and offers recommendations to policy-makers who are considering making reforms to essential public services.

It also explores the various ways of providing basic infrastructure services, including through privatisation, public sector-community partnership and NGO-led service provision.

Published by the Commonwealth Foundation

ISBN: 0-903850-45-1; 221 pages; price: £9.99

HOW TO ORDER
 
This title can be bought online at www.publications.thecommonwealth.org/.
 
A full catalogue of Commonwealth Secretariat and Commonwealth Foundation publications can be viewed on the website, which provides a secure online buying facility, and orders can also be made through e-mail or by post. Pre-payment is essential. Payment by sterling cheque, international money order, postal order or bank draft must accompany your order.
 
Payment should be in sterling, drawn on a UK bank and made out to the Commonwealth Secretariat. If you require the order form as an attachment in Word format please e-mail Domini Bingham of the Publications Section (see address below). Post and packaging charges should be added to every order in the following way: UK orders: 15 per cent of order value (minimum charge £2.00). Non-UK orders: 25 per cent of order value (minimum charge £3.50).
 
Send orders to: Domini Bingham, Publications Section, Commonwealth Secretariat, Marlborough House, Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5HX, United Kingdom.
Tel: +44 (0)20 7747 6534; Fax: +44 (0)20 7839 9081;
E-mail: d.bingham@commonwealth.int

 

CNIS - the Commonwealth News and Information Service Issue 228  30 March 2005

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