From: Yona Maro

Providing safe drinking water and basic sanitation to citizens is one of the major challenges facing African governments. The issues of access to safe drinking water and improved sanitation is well articulated and prioritized in the various national, continental, and international policy documents, strategy papers, declarations, and conventions. And yet it is not clear if the provision of sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation has been given the requisite financial and other support by the SSA policy makers and donors. An even more important issue is understanding how African governments have used the limited ODA allocated to Water Supply and Sanitation (WSS) sector to guarantee the highest possible performance and deliverance of WSS services to the citizens.

In the face of heterogeneous performance of different SSA countries, it becomes fundamental to understand the factors that determined success or failure in increasing access to water and sanitation, in order to improve the targeting of future interventions, including those funded by development aid, and avoid the repetition of past errors. The objectives of this study are to identify the factors determining countries’ performance in providing access to safe water and improved sanitation; to compare countries’ performance in the water and sanitation sector; and to analyse how effectively the countries used the development aid received for the water and sanitation sector. In this context, we develop a standardised measurement framework – the Watsan Index of Development Effectiveness (WIDE), which compares drivers of progress in water access and sanitation with results achieved, and ranks countries by the level of outcome obtained per unit of available input.

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