The report was prepared by the OECD Public Governance Directorate (GOV), under the leadership of Elsa Pilichowski, Director. The review was led by Manuel Gerardo Flores, Senior Policy Analyst, under the direction of Nick Malyshev, Head of the Regulatory Policy Division in GOV. The main authors are Alberto Morales, Erik Perez, Andres Blancas, Gloriana Madrigal and Manuel Gerardo Flores from the OECD and María Antonieta Merino, regulatory policy expert. The report was prepared for publication by Jennifer Stein.
The review is based on the information gathered through a questionnaire submitted in January 2020 and from meetings with a large range of stakeholders held in Lima, Peru, in March 2020. We thank the National Superintendence of Sanitation Services – Sunass – in particular Ivan Lucich, President of the Board of Directors; Roger Loyola, Counselor of the President; and Ximena Quiroz, Economic Analyst, for all their support. We also appreciate the valuable comments from many Sunass’ officials to drafts of this report: Mauro Gutiérrez, Ana Vergara, Mabel Morillo, Luis Acosta, José Patino, Juan Carlos Zevillanos, Vielka Chariarse, Miguel Layseca, Lourdes Flores, Sandro Huamaní, Irina Palomino, Alfredo Cotrado, Javier Noriega. They helped improve the report. We are thankful to officials from Mexico´s National Water Commission, from Peru´s regulators in Energy, Telecommunication and Transport Infrastructure, from Peru´s Presidency of Council of Minister, Ministry of Economy and Finance and from the Water Services Regulation Authority of the UK, for their comments and feedback to the case studies.
A draft version of Chapter 4 of this report, which includes the technical guidelines for preparing an RIA, was tested during a virtual capacity-building workshop held by the OECD’s Secretariat in November 2020 with the participation of experts from Colombia, Mexico, Scotland and the United Kingdom. We thank all participants and, especially, Sunass staff, who enriched this report with their comments and insights.