What counts as 'results' in capacity development partnerships between water operators? A multi-path approach toward accountability, adaptation and learning

Water Policy

Volumn 15, Issue SUPPL.2, 2013, Pages 242-266

  Sanz, Maria Pascual ^a   Veenstra, Siemen ^b   De Montalvo, Uta Wehn ^a   Van Tulder, Rob ^c   Alaerts, Guy ^a  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b Vitens Evides International   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accountability; Adaptation; Blantyre Water Board; Capacity development; Knowledge transfer; Lilongwe Water Board; Monitoring and evaluation; Non revenue water; Performance; Water operator partnerships

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885409456     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2013.022     Document Type: Article

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