Analysing the governance and political economy of water and sanitation service delivery

Failure to achieve desired human development outcomes in the water supply and sanitation sector over
the last decade has prompted a re-assessment of sector strategies and a focus on issues of governance
and political economy. The international community increasingly recognises that the governance and
institutional arrangements of a sector and the incentives generated by such arrangements – in short,
the political economy of water and sanitation – have a critical impact on how services are delivered.