Skills you'll gain

There are 7 modules in this course

• Session 1: Introduction and how our ‘ancient instincts’ affect water policy interventions. • Session 2: Planning better policy interventions: Roles, features and examples of planning protocols. • Session 3: Water pricing, tariff design and subsidies. • Session 4: Providing information to households and communities to improve water and sanitation conditions. • Session 5: Changing the institutions that deliver water and sanitation services: Privatization in developing countries. • Session 6: Changing institutions: Lessons from the UK water privatization story. • Session 7: Changing institutions: Improving regulation of the water and sanitation sector. Your instructors for this course have worked in and studied this sector for many years. Professor Dale Whittington has worked on water and sanitation policy and planning issues for over 40 years in more than two dozen low and middle-income countries. Dr Duncan Thomas has worked in the UK and European water sectors for 15 years, focusing on overcoming barriers to technological, organizational, regulatory and policy innovations. Please watch this introductory video outlining the course: https://youtu.be/KkBmo3EKkkI

Planning better policy interventions: Roles, features and examples of planning protocols

Roles, features and problems of water pricing, tariff design and subsidies

Providing information to households and communities to improve water and sanitation conditions

Changing the institutions that deliver water and sanitation services: Privatization in lesser developing countries

Changing institutions: Lessons from the UK water privatization story

Changing institutions: Improving regulation of the water and sanitation sector

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