This paper provides an assessment of information flows and the acquisition of knowledge in water governance of the Upper East Region, Ghana. These flows are patchy, often parallel, disconnected, or slow. In many cases a great deal of information is gathered but for a number of reasons not transferred into knowledge that impacts decision making and action. An analysis of knowledge flows can serve as guidance for research projects and capacity building endeavours to allow tackling the gap between more...

'The Global Corruption Report 2008 examines the link between corruption and the water sector in a comprehensive manner. It documents a wide range of corruption risks in different areas of the sector, from water resources management and water for sanitation to irrigation and hydropower.'
Source: Transparency International

'A summary of WaterAid’s report reviewing the origins, performance and demise of the Government of Tanzania’s short-lived experiment where it leased Dar es Salaam’s water infrastructure to City Water Services Ltd.'

'This think piece, prepared for DFID, aims to develop a more comprehensive and structured approach to the analysis and development of governance in water services.'

'This paper considers practical mechanisms for moving towards an operationalisation of benefit sharing with regard to water resources. The focus is on steps for putting the concept into practice and the point of departure is lessons learned from existing cooperative efforts.'

This paper examines the factors that have led to the failure of major policy reforms affecting water resources management in Sri Lanka.

'This issue of Women2000 and Beyond on women and water discusses gender perspectives of a growing water crisis and the evolution of the international policy on water. It stresses the importance of integrating gender perspectives in water resource management and water project design. It analyzes challenges to implementing a gender approach to water projects and looks at water resource management in the context of complex livelihoods. Gender-specific impacts of environmental degradation and water more...

'Project Briefing looking at the important opportunities offered by the Harmonisation and Alignment (H&A) agenda for the water sector.'

The United Nations World Water Development Report (WWDR) is a periodic, comprehensive review giving an authoritative picture of the state of the world's freshwater resources, and aiming to provide decision-makers with the tools for sustainable use of our water.

Coordinated by the World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP), the 1st Report (WWDR1) was the result of the collaboration of twenty-three UN agencies and convention secretariats and laid the foundations for regular, system-wide monitorin more...

The Decade will focus on water-related issues, at all levels and on the implementation of programmes and projects, and the furtherance of cooperation at all levels, in order to help to achieve the internationally agreed water-related goals contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, and in Agenda 21 and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation of the World Summit of Sustainable Development of August 2002 (WSSD