We must either find a way or make one. . . . Hannibal, famous general in Carthago druing his fight a

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We must either find a way or make one. . .
.(Hannibal, famous general in Carthago
druing his fight against Romans, 200 BC)
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Jeffrey Sachs, the planner

• Formulation of the United Nations Millenium
  Development Goals
• a systematic method for the termination of
  world suffering
• Halving the global population that currently
  has no acccess to safe water and basic sanitation
  by 2015
• Realistic or another utopia ???

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William Easterly, the starter

• Think global, act local
• Take small steps and develop
• local solutions that prove to work
• Independent evaluation learn your lessons and
  apply them
• Specialise and focus if you want
• everything be done everywhere,
• it all will fail !!

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Before 1970 economic growth
Economic growth will promote transfer of
capital technical know-how to improve on water
and sanitation coverage But The gap between
rich and poor, between urban and rural, between
have and have not widened dramatically.
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1970-1985 focus on poverty

• Mar del Plata (1977) in respons to
• Robert McNamara (1972) there is a
• need for specific measures to meet
• basic needs of the poor
• and
• Schumacher (1974) the scale at
• which one can impose serious impact
• should be humanitarian ( small)

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1985-2000 focus on private sector

• The Economist (1994)
• as many as people still lack
• either clean water or sanitation
• at the end of the Decade as
• when the Decade began
• Private sector participation
• to provide for investment
• funds and to introduce cost
• savings by application of
• new management models.

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Belief and non-belief

• The gospel of psp in water and
• sanitation faded, concessions
• collapsed, and civil protests
• voiced loudly
• Only cherry-picking in stable and wealthy
  economies
• No solution to inequities between rich and poor
• Negative impact imposed on the environment

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World Bank PPI project database
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Private sector withdraws

• Political and economic high-risk operations
• Shrinking profit margins (eg. currency
  instability)
• Increasing social criticism (corporate image)
• Focus on less risky water markets of Europe
• and North America!
• (UNDP World Water Report, 2006)

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2000-2015 focus on MDGs

• Re-vitalising the public sector
• Emphasis on operations, not ownership
• Looking for new financers
• but
• still it is a top?bottom approach
• That needs hands and feet of
• people to bring about change.

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Hashimoto a call for action
The world must act now. We will take our
Actions. We implore you to take your Actions.
Action now will save and enhance lives, and it is
essential if we want to protect all life and our
home, our fragile planet Chairman of the UN
Secretary-Generals Advisory Board on Water
and Sanitation

March, 2006
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Lets sit together, . . .
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and find ways how to fill buckets !
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