EUWI FWG: Preliminary Thoughts by the World Bank on a Framework/Approach to discussion for July 9/August meetings

The TORs for the Second Work programme of the EUWI’s Finance Working Group (dated June 9 2004) include a call to identify the characteristics of mechanisms that encourage success and those that impede the success of financing. This note suggests an approach to meeting the FWG objectives (at least in part). It draws both on the stated objectives in the TORs, as well as a recent World Bank/WSP publication “Meeting the Financing Challenge for WSS” which laid down an analytical framework for reviewing existing and designing new financial mechanisms which can contribute to meeting the MDG targets for water and sanitation.