Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries Part 2: Developing Effective Interventions
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Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries Part 2: Developing Effective Interventions at Coursera Course details
- Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries Part 2 is our second MOOC in a two-part sequence, and looks at ?Developing Effective Interventions?. Here we invite you to develop analytical skills and deep understanding about a complex, controversial policy problem ? one with no simple, easy answers. About half a billion people on our planet still lack access to improved water supplies and about two billion do not have improved sanitation services, leading to an unknown but very large number of avoidable deaths each year from water-related diseases. Millions of dollars are spent on avoidable health care expenditures, and people ? mostly women ? spend many billions of hours carrying water from sources outside the home. Reducing these costs is a major global challenge for us all in the 21st century. Join us to explore the challenging and complex political, economic, social, and technical dimensions of the policy interventions that donors, national governments and water utilities use to address this challenge. This second MOOC consists of the following seven sessions:
- ? Session 1: Introduction and how our ?ancient instincts? affect water policy interventions.
- ? Session 2: Planning better policy interventions: Roles, features and examples of planning protocols.
- ? Session 3: Water pricing, tariff design and subsidies.
- ? Session 4: Providing information to households and communities to improve water and sanitation conditions.
- ? Session 5: Changing the institutions that deliver water and sanitation services: Privatization in developing countries.
- ? Session 6: Changing institutions: Lessons from the UK water privatization story.
- ? Session 7: Changing institutions: Improving regulation of the water and sanitation sector.
- Your instructors for this course have worked in and studied this sector for many years. Professor Dale Whittington has worked on water and sanitation policy and planning issues for over 40 years in more than two dozen low and middle-income countries. Dr Duncan Thomas has worked in the UK and European water sectors for 15 years, focusing on overcoming barriers to technological, organizational, regulatory and policy innovations.
- Please watch this introductory video outlining the course: https://youtu.be/KkBmo3EKkkI
Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries Part 2: Developing Effective Interventions at Coursera Curriculum
Introduction and how our ?ancient instincts? affect water policy intervention
Welcome to the course - Introduction
Video 1-0 Introducing the role of ancient instincts
Video 1-1 Ancient instincts 1: State and public rejection of water policy proposals
Video 1-2 Ancient instincts 2: Examples
Video 1-3 Ancient instincts 3: Water-related
Video 1-4 Ancient instincts 4: Water policy-related
Introduction and how our ?ancient instincts? affect water policy interventions
Planning better policy interventions: Roles, features and examples of planning protocols
Video 2-0 Does better planning result in better outcomes? An example from Bolivia
Video 2-1 Four types of planning protocols commonly used around the world
Video 2-2 Demand-driven planning: Designing for community preferences and affordability
Video 2-3 Do demand-driven planning protocols work? Evidence from Bolivia, Ghana and Peru
Video 2-4 When do participatory, demand-driven approaches work best? Evidence from a World Bank study
Video 2-5 Conversation between Arif Hasan and Diana Mitlin on participation
Planning better policy interventions: Roles, features and examples of planning protocols
Roles, features and problems of water pricing, tariff design and subsidies
Video 3-0 Introducing municipal water pricing and tariff design
Video 3-1 What are the objectives of tariff design?
Video 3-2 Possible types of tariff structures
Video 3-3 Current tariff structures in low and middle-income countries
Video 3-4 Problems with increasing block tariffs (IBTs)
Video 3-5 Designing and targeting subsidies in the water and sanitation sector in LDCs
Video 3-6 Distribution of subsidies in Chile and Colombia
Video 3-7 Evidence on subsidy schemes in Chile and Colombia
Video 3-8 Designing improved water subsidy schemes
Roles, features and problems of water pricing, tariff design and subsidies
Providing information to households and communities to improve water and sanitation conditions
Video 4-0 Introduction to information treatments as a policy intervention
Video 4-1 Information treatment Case 1: In-house water quality testing
Video 4-2 Information treatment Case 2: Information provision via water bills and evidence from OWASA, Chapel Hill, USA
Video 4-3 Information treatment Case 3: Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS)
Video 4-4 Information treatment Case 3: Evidence from CLTS in Mali, West Africa
Video 4-5 Information treatment Case 4: Information provision via water bills in Jerico, Colombia
Video 4-6 Information treatment Case 4: UN Declaration on the Human Right to Water
Video 4-7 Conversation with Barbara Evans on CLTS
Video 4-8 Conservation with Kamal Kar on CLTS (in 7 parts)
Providing information to households and communities to improve water and sanitation conditions
Changing the institutions that deliver water and sanitation services: Privatization in lesser developing countries
Video 5-0 Introduction to public private partnerships (PPP)
Video 5-1 The seven main types of PPP deal structures
Video 5-2 Some challenges of PPPs from the private operator?s perspective
Video 5-3 Do PPPs improve performance? Evidence from a World Bank study
Video 5-4 Comparative experiences with PPPs in the water and sanitation sector: China versus India
Video 5-5 Conversation with Wu Xun on privatization in China and India
Video 5-6 Conversation with Leong Ching on the devil?s shift in water privatization in Jakarta, Indonesia
Video 5-7 Conversation with Eduardo Araral on water privatization in Manila, Republic of the Philippines
Changing the institutions that deliver water and sanitation services: Privatization in lesser developing countries
Changing institutions: Lessons from the UK water privatization story
Video 6-0 The significance of institutional change in the UK water sector: Privatization and regulation
Video 6-1 The historical setting and promises of the UK privatization programme
Video 6-2 Why full divestiture for the England and Wales water industry? Four prerequisites
Video 6-3 Determining a sale price for the England and Wales water industry
Video 6-4 Some outcomes of UK water privatization, part 1: Good news
Video 6-5 Some outcomes of UK water privatization, part 2: Bad news
Video 6-6 Some outcomes of UK water privatization, part 3: Unclear future?
Changing institutions: Lessons from the UK water privatization story
Changing institutions: Improving regulation of the water and sanitation sector
Video 7-0 Regulation of the water utilities in LDCs
Video 7-1 UK water regulation 1: The original vision
Video 7-2 UK water regulation 2: Evolution in practice, 1989 to 2016
Video 7-3 UK water regulation 3: Innovation and future challenges
Video 7-4 Conservation with Stephen Littlechild on inventing the UK regulatory model
Video 7-5 Conservation with Regina Finn on reforming UK water regulation
Video 7-6 The case of Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Video 7-7 Part 2 MOOC Overall Wrap-up
Part 1: Definitions and terminology: ?Virtual water?, publishing it and its critiques; blue, green, big and small water; problem-sheds and watersheds; valuing labour, land and water
Part 2: Global ?virtual water? solutions for agricultural ?big water? and local solutions for urban ?small water?
Part 3: Politics, risks and communities around water and food security: Water, environmental and financial accountants; food producers, markets and consumers
Part 4: Global trends in water and food: Food security, population, virtual water trade, international relations and peace
Part 5: New technologies and approaches for global challenges around water scarcity: Urban water recycling and desalination in Israel
Part 6: Ancient instincts, entitlement to water, privatisation, and remaining unaware of ?big water? in food
Part 7: ?Virtual water? as an inter-disciplinary innovation for water policy and water politics
Part 8: Water metrics for ?virtual water?: Origins, uptake and impact of water footprinting
Part 9: Professor Allan?s university working conditions when ?virtual water? was invented and adopted
Part 10: Professor Allan?s advice for students to become creative, courageous, well-read and effective water policy researchers
Session 7: Changing institutions: Improving regulation of the water and sanitation sector
Video interview with Professor Tony Allan
Addendum to video narrative
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