Information system and database management and development for strengthened water and sanitation systems regulation. This report is the compilation of the results on the study for setting up an GIS based as a decision support tool for performance monitoring, planning, and resource allocation, utilities management, with the aim to enhance WSS services delivery within the ESAWAS members’ countries, especially in urban areas.

This report provides an overview of the status of WSS regulation across Africa. It presents a summary of regulatory frameworks in place for WSS service provision in urban and rural areas in 54 countries based on a study initiated by ESAWAS. Key findings and overviews are provided for the policy and legal backing for WSS regulation, different spheres of regulation (regulated service providers, regulated service delivery types), regulatory mechanisms, and the regulatory environment.

This report provides an overview of WSS regulation across the Southern African region in ten countries: Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

This report provides an overview of WSS regulation across the Eastern African region in 14 countries: Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.

This report provides an overview of WSS regulation across the Central African region in nine countries: Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic (CAR), Chad, Congo Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Sao Tome and Principe.

This report provides an overview of WSS regulation across the Western Africa region in 15 countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.

This report provides an overview of WSS regulation across the Northern African region in six countries: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia. Data on Sahrawi Republic could not be obtained.

To provide guidance on service provision requirements from containment, emptying, transportation, storage and treatment facilities as well as disposal/reuse mechanisms. The guidelines promote safe and sustainable service delivery with consideration for technology, cost-effectiveness, appropriateness and progressive realisation.

To provide a guidance to regulators in the determination of cost reflective tariffs for sewered and non-sewered services in line with the tariff setting principles. The guidelines provide a set of sound, well-specified methodology that can be used by regulators to improve predictability, objectivity and transparency of the tariff-setting for sanitation services, as well as inputs for development of tariff setting models.

To provide guidance for citywide inclusive sanitation planning that encompasses long-term planning, technical innovation and financial mobilisation. Includes Business Models, Business Planning, Investment planning, Financing options, Private Sector Participation, appropriate technology, stakeholder engagement, gender and social inclusion considerations and planning tools.

This short publication looks at the function of responsibility: the extent to which sanitation authorities are clearly mandated. The publication outlines a typology of the main approaches to defining and assigning mandates for sanitation services to one or more responsible authorities; and provides an overview of examples, exceptions, and implications of these approaches.

This is one paper in a series of three that present the role of each CWIS function, how they tend to be implemented or overlooked, and how they interact with the other functions. These are initial framing publications, to be followed by longer publications centred around in-depth case studies.