Background Documentation for the OECD Global Forum for Sustainable Development, 18-19th December, 2003

OPENING SESSION

Background Document:

• Financing Water for All, Report of the World Panel on Financing Water Infrastructure

Presentations:

• Mr. Kiyotaka Akasaka, Deputy Secretary-General, OECD
• Mr. Jamal Saghir, Director, Energy and Water, World Bank
• Mr. James Winpenny, Secretary, World Panel on Financing Water Infrastructure

SESSION I: FINANCING STRATEGIES FOR WATER AND ENVIRONMENTAL INFRASTRUCTURE

Background Documents:

• OECD Policy Brief on Environmental Finance Strategies
• Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure in OECD Countries, OECD Working Paper

Presentations:

SESSION II: ENSURING ACCESS OF THE POOR AND VULNERABLE TO WATER AND SANITATION SERVICES

Background Documents:

• "Water, Sanitation and Electricity" Chapter of the World Development Report 2004 “Making Services Work for Poor People”
• "Social Issues in the Provision and Pricing of Water Services" - Executive Summary of the OECD publication

Presentations:

SESSION III. IMPROVING MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC ENVIRONMENTAL EXPENDITURE

Background Documents:

• Good Practices of Public Environmental Expenditure Management, OECD

Presentations:

SESSION IV. LOCAL CAPITAL MARKETS AND THE FINANCING OF URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL INFRASTRUCTURE

Background Documents

• Banks or Bonds: Building a Municipal Credit Market. George Peterson. Paper presented at the ADB Conference on Local Government Finance and Bond Market Financing, November 19, 2002
• Innovations and Solutions for Financing Water and Sanitation, by Planning and Development Collaborative, Inc. and George Peterson, The Urban Institute, submitted by USAID

Presentations:

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