1st Edition

Strategy and Performance of Water Supply and Sanitation Providers UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis

By Marco Schouten Copyright 2010
274 Pages
by CRC Press

274 Pages
by CRC Press

274 Pages
by CRC Press

The continuous growth in the demand for water supply and sanitation services has posed decision makers with the challenge to discover new, and to adapt existing, institutions. Since the last two decades, the most prominent institutional change for the water and sanitation sector is neo-liberalism. This book analyses the effects of neo-liberal institutional changes on the strategies and... Read more
PART I: Introduction to Water Supply and Sanitation Sector, Neo-Liberalism. PART II: Research Design: Objectives and Approach, Analytical Framework. PART III: Analysis: Institutional Dynamics, Institutions and the Strategic Context, Plans and Actions of WSS Providers; Performance, Institutions and Strategic Actions. PART IV: Synthesis

Biography

Marco Schouten received his Masters in Business Economics from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (1994). Followed by an international management consultancy career for almost ten years. Notably, he worked for Ernst & Young Management Consultants for almost three years in South America, and for Royal Haskoning Consulting Engineers he stayed for almost three years in Egypt. He joined UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft in 2003. At this institute, Marco is senior lecturer and deputy head of the Management and Institutions department. He is involved in a variety of tasks from education to acquisition, scientific research and consultancy assignments.