This study is focused on Clean Team, a social enterprise providing container-based sanitation (CBS) services in Kumasi, the second-largest city in Ghana with a population of 2.7 million in 2018.
... See More + Clean Team is owned by Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP), a nonprofit partnership between the private sector, civil society, and academia. Clean Team delivers a single service: rental and regular servicing of in-house portable toilets, which includes transporting feces to a centralized treatment facility but not the processing and reuse of excreta. Customers find the Clean Team toilet appealing and Clean Team services are affordable compared to other alternatives. External subsidies, provided through public and philanthropic grant funding, have been necessary for Clean Team to cover its costs. Clean Team has been working, with support from funders and external advisers, on improving the efficiency of its services and reducing costs. Going forward, Clean Team could benefit from a clearer policy environment, which would allow them to increase the scale of their operations based on a more cost-efficient business model.
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The maldistribution of skilled civil servants is an intractable policy challenge faced by many large and sparsely populated countries. Skilled teachers and health care providers tend to concentrate in urban areas where working and living conditions are most favorable.
... See More + The inability to attract and retain capable staff in remote areas constrains the provision of quality services and leaves those in most need-poor, rural, and marginalized individuals and groups-generally underserved.
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The development objective of First Phase of Emergency Recovery Project is to contribute to Sint Maarten's immediate emergency recovery needs and strengthen institutional capacity to manage resilient recovery and reconstruction.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts are include: (i) worker safety in the construction activities and homeowner protections under the voluntary roofing assistance program; (ii) involuntary relocation, which has been identified as an issue associated with repairs to public housing managed by the Sint Maarten Housing Development Foundation (SMHDF); (iii) roof repairs will be completed on occupied residences or dwellings that have already been evacuated and no qualifying land acquisitions have been identified; (iv) emergency repairs to designated public disaster shelters; Some of the mitigation measures are include : (i) contractor shall be responsible for maintaining security over the construction site including the protection of stored materials and equipment; (ii) contractor shall be responsible for providing signage, signals and warning devices as well as flagmen of signal systems where works result in lane closures; (iii) contractors will be required to estipulate how it will manage sanitary wastes generated as a result of project activities; (iv) use hazardous materials excluding pesticides, oils, fuels and petroleum products shall conform to the proper use recommendations of the product; (v) use of preservatives and paint substances; (vi) contractor shall implement measures at the site of operations to manage soil erosion through minimization of excavated area, preservation of existing ground cover to the extent possible, provision of approved ground cover; (vii) contractor allow construction wastes to accumulate in a manner that causes a nuisance or health risk due to the propagation of pests and disease vectors; (viii) contractor shall provide for the regular removal and disposal of all site wastes and provide the contracting officer with a schedule for such removal.
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The High Frequency South Sudan Survey, implemented by the South Sudan National Bureau of Statistics in collaboration with the World Bank, conducted several waves of representative surveys across seven of the ten former states between 2015 and 2017.
... See More + These surveys provided a long overdue update to poverty numbers in South Sudan, with the previous national poverty estimates dating as far back as 2009. The escalation and expansion of the civil conflict posed severe challenges to the planning and implementation of fieldwork. The surveys therefore capitalized on several technological and methodological innovations to establish a reliable system of data collection and obtain valid poverty estimates. Focusing on the 2016 urban-rural wave, this paper describes the design and analysis of the survey to arrive at reliable poverty estimates for South Sudan, utilizing the Rapid Consumption Methodology combines with geo-spatial data for inaccessible survey areas.
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Working Paper (Numbered Series) 134221 JAN 30, 2019
