World Bank Institute and Global Seminars

In 2005, the WBI “…engaged more than 100,000 civil servants, development practitioners, parliamentarians, political leaders, civil society groups, and young people in more than 1,000 face-to-face and distance learning activities. Each day WBI delivered 7,000 Web casts and the digital equivalent of 4,000 books.”

World Commission on Water for the 21st Century

• Formed in 1998• Notable founders

– Robert McNamara (former Bank president)– Mohamed El-Ashry (CEO of Bank Global

Environmental Facility)– Enrique Iglesias (President of Inter-American

Development Bank)– Wilfried Thalwitz (former World Bank VP)– Ismail Serageldin (senior WB environmental official)– Jerome Monod (chairman of the board, Suez)– Maurice Strong (former CEO of Petro-Canada)

• International water policy think tank formed in 1996

• Circulated “World Water Vision” report calling for privatization

• Governed by members of UN, World Bank, CIDA, UNDP, African Development Bank, IUCN, Suez– In 1998, Rene Coulomb (former director of Suez)

and William Cosgrove (Bank VP) were VPs of WWC

• Formed in 1996• Funded by bilateral aid agencies, World Bank,

UNDP, and Ford Foundation• Notable officials

– Chair of steering committee: Ismail Serageldin (former World Bank VP)

– Executive Secretary: Emilio Gabbrielli (managing director of Thames Water Do Brazil)

– Chair of Panel on Financing Water Infrastructure: Michael Camdessus (former IMF director)

• British water NGO formed in 1981– Notable trustees

• Vic Crocker (retired CEO of Severn Trent)• Hugh Speed (VP of Suez)• David Luffram and John Sexton (directors of

Thames Water)• Stuart Derwent (Southern Water)• Colin Skellet (chair of Wessex)

World Bank

Water Companies

World Commission

on Water

Global Water Partnership

World Water Council

WBCSD Camdessus Report

Ismail Serageldin

WilliamCosgrove

Enrique Iglesias

John Briscoe

MargaretCatley-Carlson

Rene Coulomb

JeromeMonod

WaterAid

SuezThames Veiola

Transnational Policy Network on Water: Late 1990s

Organizations and Water Companies Belonging to Water TPN Since 1996

• Actively involved in EU research funding– Example: UNESCO-IHE

• Water research institute received 300,000 Euros from Suez in 2002

• Suez funded a professorship at IHE in 2003• Actively involved in teaching, curriculum planning, and

supervision and financing of masters students

• World Business Council for Sustainable Development• Observatoire Social International• Corporate Social Responsibility• French Committee for Environment and Sustainable

Development• National Council for Sustainable Development• Enterprises for the Environment• Forum for Responsible Investment

• European Foundation for Territorial Sustainable Development

• Observatoire sur la Responsibilite Societale des Entreprises

• Paris Council for Sustainable Economic Development• Fondation Nicolas Hulot• UNESCO• Women’s Forum• Aquafed• Oieau

Mapping Out International Finance in the Bangalore Water Sector

World Bank

ADBUSAID

KUIDFCBMPBWSSB

JBIC

Karnataka Municipal Reform Project

$216 million

2006-2012

Karnataka Urban Water Sector Improvement Project

$39.5 million

2004-2008

Karnataka Urban Development Project

$80 million

1996-2004

Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environment Management

Project

2000-2006

$175 million

Financial Institutions Reform and Expansion Project (FIRE

I) (completed)

FIRE II (ongoing)

Bangalore Cauvery Water Supply Stage IV Phase I

28,452 billion yen

(completed)

Bangalore Cauvery Water Supply Stage IV Phase II

70,355 billion yen

(ongoing)

GBWASP

BATF SURVEY ON IMPROVEMENTS ON CRITICAL PROBLEMS

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70

IrregularWater Supply

Garbage onRoad

Potholes onRoad

Pollution

BetterSameWorse

Interactions with Agencies

Matrix of key `Disablers’

AgenciesIssue

KIADB KEB BWSSB PCB SFIsBribes weredemanded

36.8% 51.5% 38.5% 43.8% 31.8%

Processing time* 71.9% 81.8% 30.8% 60.9% 56.8%

Amount of*paperwork required

61.4% 51.5% 53.8% 50% 63.6%

Staff behaviour* 28.1% 28.8% 30.8% 23.4% 20.5%

More than 10 visitsmade

37.3% 34.2% 14.8% 19.1% 29.1%

* Proportion expressing dissatisfaction

WHAT REPORT CARDS ACHIEVED...

• STRENGTHENING CIVIL SOCIETY INITIATIVESSWABHIMANA MOVEMENT - SERVICE DELIVERY IMPROVEMENTS, ELECTORAL TRANSPARENCY.

• CAPACITY BUILDING FOR PUBLIC INTEREST GROUPSADVOCACY NGOs AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS- FEDCOT, SEWA, RKS, UNDP

• REPLICATIONS/ADAPTATIONS: BATF, Bangalore; Governance Score Cards - Bangladesh; Social Weather Project - Philippines