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The African Ministers' Council on
Water (AMCOW) commissioned the production of a second round
of Country Status Overviews (CSOs2) to better understands
what underpins progress in water supply and sanitation and
what its member governments can do to accelerate that
progress across countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). AMCOW
delegated this task to the World Bank's Water and
Sanitation Program and the African Development Bank (AfDB),
which are implementing it in close partnership with United
Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health
Organization (WHO) in over 30 countries across SSA. This
CSO2 report has been produced in collaboration with the
Government of Ethiopia and other stakeholders during
2009-10. The analysis aims to help countries assess their
own service delivery pathways for turning finance into water
supply and sanitation services in each of four subsectors:
rural and urban water supply, and rural and urban
sanitation, and hygiene. The CSO2 analysis has three main
components: a review of past coverage; a costing model to
assess the adequacy of future investments; and a scorecard
which allows diagnosis of particular bottlenecks along the
service delivery pathway. The CSO2's contribution is to
answer not only whether past trends and future finance are
sufficient to meet sector targets, but what specific issues
need to be addressed to ensure finance is effectively turned
into accelerated coverage in water supply and sanitation. In
this spirit, specific priority actions have been identified
through consultation. A synthesis report, available
separately, presents best practice and shared learning to
help realize these priority actions.
