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Here you can find Finance Briefs produced by the Public Finance for WASH initiative, and useful open-access publications produced by other organisations:

25 Years Progress on Sanitation and Drinking Water. 2015 Update and MDG Assessment

WHO - UNICEF REPORT | The World Health Organization and UNICEF have published a complete report on the progress on sanitation and drinking water. Definitely worth to look at it and take actions!

Message, Method, and Messenger. Literature Survey

UI LITERATURE REVIEW | This literature survey aims to review how communication and advocacy have been used to change local policy making, programming, and budgetary allocations in the developing country context. Insights

Triggering Increased City-Level Public Finance for Pro-Poor Sanitation Improvements

UI REPORT | This paper provides a general framework for understanding the political economy and fiscal determinants of sanitation service provision by urban local governments

How can we influence municipal governments to allocate more money to sanitation?

WSUP PRACTICE NOTE | Improving urban sanitation requires big investment by municipal as well as national government: but in most African cities, sanitation receives less than 1% of the total municipal budget.

Finance Brief 15: Tracking rural WASH funding in India: From national programmes to district budgets

How do national WASH aims and programmes translate to sub-national achievements? This Finance Brief examines the bottlenecks in funding at the state and district levels, based on one state in India.

Financing universal access to water, sanitation and hygiene by 2030

WATER AID REPORT | This is an interesting report in preparation for Addis Ababa discussion on domestic resource mobilisation (DRM) for WASH

Evaluating the effectiveness of public finance for household sanitation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Report of a very valuable research study which includes a detailed and useful information on budget flows to sanitation in Dar es Salaam, and on the challenges faced in encouraging increased channeling of municipal resources to sanitation.

Municipal finance for sanitation in three African cities

WSUP DISCUSSION PAPER | This Discussion Paper reports data on municipal public finance for sanitation in three African cities: Ga West (Ghana), Maputo (Mozambique), and Nakuru (Kenya).

Building Tax Capacity in Developing Countries

IDS POLICY BRIEFING | This Policy Brief of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) points out some interesting recommendations such as accountability, South-South cooperation and mentoring in order to improve the tax capacity in developing countries.

Water: Fit to Finance? Catalyzing National Growth Through Investment In Water Security

WWC - OECD REPORT | A Report of the High Level Panel on Financing for a Water Secure World (HLP), focusing on how water infrastructures can be financed.

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