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WATER GOVERNANCE IN CITIES: AN OECD PERSPECTIVE Oriana Romano, PhD Policy Analyst, OECD Water Governance Programme 8 th European Conference on Sustainable Cities & Towns Bilbao, 27 April 2016
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WATER GOVERNANCE IN CITIES:

AN OECD PERSPECTIVE

Oriana Romano, PhD Policy Analyst, OECD Water Governance Programme 8th European Conference on Sustainable Cities & Towns Bilbao, 27 April 2016

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• What are the challenges?

• Is cities’ governance well-equipped to handle these challenges?

• What should local and national governments do?

Water Governance in cities

Policy questions

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A Survey across 48 Cities

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The analytical framework

Source : OECD (2016) Water Governance in Cities, OECD Publishing, Paris

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Water is key to sustainable cities

Current levels of service delivery and water security in

OECD and emerging economies should not be

taken for granted

Simultaneous action is needed on :

Infrastructure, institutions and

information

SDG 11 “ Making cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable”

SDG 6 “Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and

sanitation for all”

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What are the challenges?

Source : OECD (2016) Water Governance in Cities, OECD Publishing, Paris

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Are cities’ governance structures well-

equipped to handle the challenges?

Source : OECD (2016) Water Governance in Cities, OECD Publishing, Paris

Roles and responsibilities in urban water management are still high fragmented national-subnational coordination

Urban water management concerns several scales multi-level functional approach to water functions

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Multi-level governance gaps:

Capacity and Funding gaps

Lack of knowledge on

water 40%

Poor planning 40%

Difficulties in doing ex ante

evaluation 44%

Difficulties in doing monitoring

and ex post evaluation

50%

Lack of staff and managerial capacities

65% Golden rule when

borrowing from commercial

sources 23%

Limited decentralisation of fiscal power and

taxation 29%

Difficulties in mobilising private sector financial

contribution 33%

Lack of financial guarantees for the

city to borrow 38%

Lack of multi-annual strategic plans and multi-annual budgets

38%

Difficulties in collecting tariffs

and charges from water 46%

Weak prioritisation of

investment 48%

Affordability constraints

requiring tariff adjustments 54%

Difficulties in raising tariffs for water services

69%

Funding Capacity

Source : OECD (2016) Water Governance in Cities, OECD Publishing, Paris

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Multi-level governance gaps:

Information and accountability gaps

Lack of data on the water balance

and quality 27%

Absence or incomplete water

users'registry 33%

Lack of independent data

38%

Inconsistencies in available data

38%

Data dispersed across agencies

52%

Incomplete and irregular data

collection 56%

Over technical information

56%

lack of publicly available data on

drinking water quality 23%

Lack of accounting control through regular financial

audits 23%

Lack of competitive

procurement process

27%

Weak judicial system for conflict

resolutioni 31%

Lack of benchmarking for

service providers'performa

nce 44%

Lack of publicly available data on

economic and financial

performance 46%

Limited monitoring 46%

Weak stakeholder engagement

48%

Limited information

sharing across local authorities

60%

Accountability Information

Source : OECD (2016) Water Governance in Cities, OECD Publishing, Paris

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Policy Responses : The 3Ps co-ordination framework

Source : OECD (2016) Water Governance in Cities, OECD Publishing, Paris

Policy complementarities

• Rural- Urban partnerships

• Metropolitan governance

Stakeholder engagement

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Next steps : Implementation in Cities of the

OECD Principles on Water Governance

Source: OECD “OECD Principles on Water Governance”, OECD, Paris, available at: www.oecd.org/gov/regionalpolicy/ OECD-

Principles-on-Water-Governance-brochure.pdf.

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THANK YOU

[email protected]

WWW.OECD.ORG/GOV/WATER


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