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UNDP-World Bank Water & Sanitation Programme
- South Asia |
Add: WSP-SA
55 Lodi Estate
New Delhi - 110 003
Delhi
Tel: 91-11-24690488 , 11-24628250
Email: wspsa@worldbank.org
Website: http://www.wsp.org
Contact: Piers Cross
Purpose: Sanitation, Water
Aim/Objective/Mission: The UNDP-World Bank Water and Sanitation
Programme (WSP) is a global programme supported by the
world’s leading water agencies, executed by the
World Bank, operating in about 40 countries. It's activities
in South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri
Lanka) are coordinated by the regional office in New Delhi.
The India Country Team oversees Programme activities in
India. The WSP mission is to assist poor people gain sustained
access to improved water and sanitation services. The
Program’s strategic objectives are: + Learning and
communicating + Strengthening sector policies, and + Improving
investment effectiveness The Programme’s work focuses
on two main themes : rural water and sanitation, and urban
water and waste services. Cross-cutting issues include:
capacity building, community based approaches, demand-responsive
policies, participation and gender and private sector/pro-poor
approaches. Fostering partnerships and facilitating sector
co-ordination are an important part of the WSP’s
role. In India, the Programme chairs the UN Interagency
Working Group on Water and Environmental Sanitation (IAWG-WES).
The Programme works with several levels of government
and has entered into a strategic alliance with the Rajiv
Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission, Ministry of Rural
Areas and Employment in support of government’s
reform of water and sanitation policies. In the urban
sector, the programme plans to assist municipalities in
improving their water and sanitation services for the
poor, by focusing on improved institutional arrangements
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