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Reforming Public Services
    Perspectives on the EU Economic Crisis
    October 2011
    TNI

    The banks are making huge profits again while more people are made redundent from jobs whose services we actually need. Three experts share their views on the European economic crisis, and the failure of governments to take action.

    Pro-poor water management: community participation and ownership
    August 2011
    Satoko Kishimoto

    ‘Pro-poor urban water provision’ was a big theme at World Water Week in Stockholm this year. But what is pro-poor water provision, in practice?

    Fighting corruption with the Water TAP plus A
    August 2011
    Satoko Kishimoto

    Using research, workshops and local user's committies to help tackle corruption in the governance of private and public utilities - a case study from Kenya.

    Many little streams make a mighty river – the 1 per cent solidarity levy
    August 2011
    Satoko Kishimoto

    How an innovative financial scheme could help to finance international public-public water projects in the global south.

    Strengthening public water in Africa
    August 2011
    Samir Bensaid

    While both North–South partnerships and SouthSouth Partnerships have strengths and limitations, linking these in networked models is an effective way to mobilise expertise and funding and achieve success.

    Strengthening public water in Africa: South South North networked model of Public-public Partnerships
    May 2011
    Water Justice

    Samir Bensaid is author of the new chapter addition to the collaborative book project "Reclaiming Public Water"- part of TNI's Water Justice programme - which brings experience and insight from Morocco and Mauritania.

    The politics of achieving the Right to Water
    April 2011
    Susan George
    Water Justice
     Mthandeki Nhlapo, Peter Waldorff

    Privatisation offers nothing to the 43 percent of Africans in cities who have no access to water. On World Water Day 2011, experts met in Cape Town to share experiences of successful public-public partnerships for equal public access.

    The Way Forward - Voices from the Global Water Operator Partnership Alliance
    April 2011

    GWOPA brings together public water operators, trade unions, workers and civil society on a platform to discuss, learn and develop model practices for the provision of fair and equal access to public water.

    Open letter to UN-HABITAT Executive Director, Joan Clos, on UN funding for water justice
    April 2011
    Satoko Kishimoto
    Water Justice

    Recent plans to cut funds for the UN's water related work - meaning support for water operator partnership (WOP) alliances would be lost - is a major threat to the great progress which has already been achieved and threatens to undermine the provision of universal access to clean public water....

    UN World Water Day 2011: Reclaiming public water for our cities
    March 2011
    Water Justice

    TNI's Water Justice programme is marking this year's UN World Water Day in Cape Town at the GWOPA (Global Water Operator partnerships Alliance) Congress, in the continuing struggle to reclaim public water.

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