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Applying franchising principles to improving water and sanitation services reliability

Author: Wall, K Date: Nov 2008 CSIR 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 offers ... Read more
Building a capacity building manual

Author: Clinton, DD ; Cleland, A ; Botha, D ; Nagussey, D ; Lewis, S ; Day, P ; Wall, K Date: Feb 2010 Sustainable engineering infrastructure and services are the basic cornerstones of life, civilization and economic wellbeing of communities. Across the world, there is a huge deficiency in capacity to understand the need for, how to develop, ... Read more
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
CSIR contribution to the 2010 state of engineering infrastructure in South Africa report card

Author: Wall, K ; Rust, C ; Amod, S ; Botha, D Date: 01 Sep 2010 In 2006, the South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE), utilising desktop research documentation prepared for this specific purpose by the CSIR, released the first ever “report card” of the state of engineering infrastructure in ... Read more
CSIR’s advocacy and support of infrastructure asset management

Author: Wall, K ; Nordengen, Paul A ; Abbott, G ; Paige-Green, P ; Roux, Michael P Date: Nov 2008 That increasing attention is being paid to infrastructure asset management (IAM) is timely, and owes something to the work of the CSIR in discovering and documenting the state of infrastructure, and in leading specific aspects of the process ... Read more
Delivery through innovation: CSIR research on water services infrastructure operation through franchising

Author: Wall, K Date: Feb 2006 There is a great need for institutional innovations aimed at improving access to basic water services in South Africa, and sustaining that improvement. In support of effective delivery, the CSIR, with the support of the Water Research Commission, ... 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
DWAF water services IAM strategy positioned within the context of other major national IAM initiatives

Author: Wall, K ; Manus, A ; Moodley, K ; Boshoff, L ; Ottermann, A Date: May 2008 This paper describes the steady progress that the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF) has been making with formulating a national water services infrastructure asset management (IAM) strategy. A "scan" of the state of water services ... 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 partnerships for roads engineering infrastructure operation and maintenance

Author: Wall, K Date: Jul 2008 This is a presentation delivered at the 27th SATC (Southern African Transport Conference) conference 2008, focusing on franchising principles and applying these principles to water services infrastructure, operation and maintenance 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
A Guidebook for capacity building in the engineering environment

Author: Clinton, D ; Cleland, A ; Sanio, M ; Botha, D ; Wall, K ; Negussey, D ; Lewis, S Date: Oct 2010 WFEO’s Standing Committee on Capacity Building (CCB) has over the years developed an understanding of the challenges and complexities that face the engineering community regarding capacity and sustainability issues. With the objective of ... Read more
How a franchise approach to water services could look based on successes in South Africa

Author: Shaylor, E ; Maponya, G ; Wall, K ; Ive, O ; Baghwan, J ; Birkholtz, W Date: Jul 2013 Studies undertaken by the CSIR and WRC 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. On-going ... Read more
How infrastructure delivery can find its way again

Author: Watermeyer, R ; Wall, K ; Pirie, G Date: Mar 2013 The National Planning Commission, chaired by the Minister in The Presidency for National Planning, was mandated to take a broad, cross-cutting, independent and critical view of South Africa in order to help define the South Africa its people ... Read more
How much potential have PPPS to assist sustainable water services delivery at local level

Author: Wall, K Date: Feb 2010 Water and wastewater utilities are the engines of the economic well being of cities Problems associated with water and sanitation service provision in lower and middle income countries are increasing, not shrinking. The potential contribution ... Read more
IAM strategy to keep our water services clean and fresh and reliable

Author: Manus, N ; Wall, K ; Moodley, K Date: Aug 2008 This paper describes the steady progress that the South African department of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF) has been making with formulating a national water services infrastructure asset management (IAM) strategy. A "scan" of the state ... 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

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