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Compendium of best practice and innovation in asset management of water services infrastructure

Author: Bhagwan, J ; Wall, K Date: May 2008 As part of a water services infrastructure asset management best practice and innovation initiative of the Global Water Research Coalition (GWRC), the Water Research Commission (WRC) agreed to contribute a selection of ten South African best ... Read more
Demonstrating the effectiveness of social franchising principles: the emptying of household ventilated improved pits: a case study from South Africa

Author: Wall, K ; Ive, O ; Bhagwan, J ; Kirwan, F ; Birkholtz, W ; Lupuwana, N ; Shaylor, E Date: Aug 2013 Having viewed the successful social franchising partnerships pilot programme that serviced sanitation facilities at 400 schools in the Butterworth District of the Eastern Cape of South Africa, the Amathole District Municipality (ADM) expressed ... Read more
Demonstrating the effectiveness of social franchising principles: The emptying of household vips: A case study from Goven Mbeki village

Author: Wall, K ; Ive, O ; Bhagwan, J ; Kirwan, F ; Birkholtz, W ; Lupuwana, N ; Shaylor, E Date: Oct 2012 Having viewed the successful social franchising partnerships pilot programme that serviced sanitation facilities at 400 schools in the Butterworth District of the Eastern Cape, the Amathole District Municipality (ADM) expressed interest in ... Read more
Eastern Cape piloting of CSIR research to improve water services reliability

Author: Wall, K ; Bhagwan, J ; Ive, O Date: 01 Sep 2010 CSIR research has found that operations and maintenance partnerships, using the basic principles of franchising, could address many challenges in the operation and maintenance of water services. This was reported at the CSIR 2nd Biennial ... Read more
Franchising - a partnership model for efficient water services operation and maintenance

Author: Wall, K ; Bhagwan, J ; Ive, O Date: May 2007 There is a need in South Africa for institutional innovations aimed at increasing the coverage and reliability of water services, and sustaining those services. The paper describes an alternative service delivery institutional concept, viz ... Read more
Franchising O&M water services infrastructure in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa

Author: Wall, K ; Bhagwan, J ; Ive, O Date: Sep 2010 South African research has found that franchising partnerships could alleviate and address many challenges in the operation and maintenance of water services infrastructure. Franchising brings appropriate training to those on-site, and also ... Read more
Franchising of water services: a viable business format that can be used to improve the cost and reliability of water services at schools and in poor communities

Author: Ive, O ; Wall, K ; Bhagwan, J Date: Oct 2011 The focus by authorities on the roll-out of new water and sanitation infrastructure for providing services for the previously unserved has often resulted in a reduced focus on maintaining the existing infrastructure and services. When working ... Read more
Franchising principles for improved sustainability and reliability of water and sanitation services

Author: Wall, K ; Bhagwan, J ; Ive, O Date: May 2009 South African research has found that franchising partnerships could alleviate and address many challenges in the operation and maintenance of water services infrastructure. Franchising brings appropriate training to those on-site, and also ... Read more
Going with the franchising flow: improving watsan services in South Africa

Author: Wall, K ; Bhagwan, J Date: Sep 2011 In an effort to improve the cleaning and maintenance of water and sanitation infrastructure in South Africa, an innovative franchising approach is being piloted at 400 schools, improving not only sanitation facilities, but also health and ... Read more
Improving health at schools through franchising of water and sanitation services

Author: Wall, K ; Bhagwan, J ; Ive, O ; White, M Date: Sep 2010 Some areas of the developing world have seen an increasingly poor and often unacceptable quality of water and sanitation service. The reason for this is invariably inadequate arrangements and incentives for operation and maintenance (O&M) -- ... Read more
Local franchisee PPPS for water services operation

Author: Bhagwan, J ; Wall, K Date: May 2007 The paper describes an alternative service delivery institutional concept, viz the franchising of local entrepreneurs, a PPP model especially suited to developing countries. The concept is being developed with the intention of making it ... Read more
O&M of services infrastructure by social franchising partnerships

Author: Wall, K ; Bhagwan, J ; Ive, O ; Kirwan, F Date: Sep 2012 South African research finds that social franchising partnerships could address many challenges in the operation and maintenance of water services infrastructure. Franchising trains those on-site, and also provides backup off-site skills. ... Read more
Piloting franchising O&/M partnerships: connecting unrelated concepts, to create something innovative

Author: Wall, K ; Bhagwan, J ; Ive, O Date: Jul 2011 Partnerships, using the basic principles of franchising, could address many challenges in the operation and/or maintenance of water services. Franchising provides appropriate training to people at services sites, and also offers backup off-site ... Read more
Quality service delivery for the community, by the community: an innovative Eastern Cape infrastructure and job creation success

Author: Wall, K ; Ive, O ; Bhagwan, J ; Birkholtz, W ; Lupuwana, N ; Shaylor, E Date: Oct 2013 A number of pilot projects in the Eastern Cape have demonstrated how the institutionally innovative and very practical social franchising partnership approach can successfully be used for the routine maintenance of low-technology water and ... Read more
Social franchising principles do work: The business approach to removal and disposal of faecal sludge -- from pilot to scale

Author: Wall, K ; Ive, O ; Bhagwan, J ; Kirwan, F Date: Aug 2012 Sudies undertaken by the CSIR and WRC have found that social franchising partnerships for the routine maintenance of infrastructure could alleviate and address many challenges in the management of water services. A pilot project, under way ... Read more
Social franchising principles do work: the business approach to removal and disposal of faecal sludge – from pilot to scale

Author: Wall, K ; Ive, O ; Bhagwan, J ; Kirwan, F Date: 2013 Studies undertaken in South Africa have found that social franchising partnerships for the routine maintenance of infrastructure could alleviate and address many challenges in the management of water services. A three-year pilot project has ... Read more
To do or not to do: Experiences from the application of social franchising principles for water services O&M in the Eastern Cape

Author: Wall, K ; Bhagwan, J ; Ive, O ; Kirwan, F Date: May 2012 Studies have found that the concept of social franchising partnerships for the routine maintenance of infrastructure could alleviate and address many challenges in the management of water services. At the same time, these partnerships would ... Read more
Unlocking franchising to improve water services: a pilot

Author: Wall, K ; Bhagwan, J ; Ive, O Date: Sep 2012 South African research has found that operations and maintenance partnerships, using the basic principles of franchising, could address many challenges in the operation and maintenance of water services. Franchising provides appropriate ... Read more
Unlocking the potential of franchising partnerships to improve water service compliance

Author: Wall, K ; Bhagwan, J ; Ive, O Date: May 2008 There is a need for institutional innovations aimed at increasing the coverage and reliability of water services, and sustaining those services, while improving compliance. This paper describes WRC development of an alternative institutional ... Read more
Water services and franchising partnership principles flowing together for improved delivery

Author: Wall, K ; Bhagwan, J ; Oliver, I Date: Aug 2008 Water Research Commission (WRC) of South Africa studies have found that franchising partnerships could alleviate and address many challenges in the operation and maintenance of water services infrastructure. Franchising brings appropriate ... Read more

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