F1ES 4315 - Global Water Governance: Challenges and Dilemmas of Governing a Global Common Good
The seminar addresses the governance of water services around the world to highlight the diversity of the policies adopted but also the persistence of the problems that political decision-makers are confronted with to develop or maintain highly capital-intensive networked water services.
By analyzing the water services in Europe (France, Great Britain, Italy, Finland), the United States, Latin America (Brazil, Argentina), Africa (Senegal, Burkina Faso) and from development agencies' perspectives (World Bank, FDA), the seminar makes it possible to analyze different situations but also to understand the specificity of the countries receiving development aid, dependent on the development paradigms forged by the major donors.
Learning Outcomes:
1. Understand the specifics of water service delivery: public service, human right, utility, network industry
2. Understand the various organizational models and the various management models offered to policy decision makers to ensure the delivery of water services
3. Analyze the strategic choices made by different countries for water service delivery over time
4. Understand the role and the impact of development agencies and development brokers on the strategies and policies of Southern countries to achieve universal access to water
5. Go beyond the public / private debate
Professional Skills:
1.Develop Analytical skills;
2.Ability to debate pros and cons;
3. Ability to stand for an informed political decision with regards to water services development
Xavier LEFLAIVE,Anna DUPONT,Joshua NEWTON
Séminaire
English
Course workload:
- Attendance: 2 hours a week / 24 hours a semester
- Online learning activities: 2 hours a week / 24 hours a semester
- Reading and Preparation for Class: 20 hours a week / 240 hours a semester
- Research and Writing for Individual Assessments: 5 hours a week / 60 hours a semester
Spring 2022-2023
Assessment:
1. Quizz at the end/begginning of each session to evaluate the understanding of the core concepts and the situation exposed and discussed during each session (5%)
2. Discussion after the 1-hour lecture or the two 30-minute lectures to clarify, deepen and challenge the expert's knowledge and thesis (5%)
3. Final exam : a policy brief to write or video record about the future of water services in a given country (90%)
Pedagogical and feedback format:
At the beginning of each session except the first – last session after reading/visioning the policy briefs
1. José Esteban Castro and Léo Heller (eds), 2009, Public Policy and the Management of Water and Sanitation Services, Polisan, London
2. Janice A. Beecher, 2013, What matters to performance? Structural and institutional dimensions of water utility governance, International Review of Applied Economics, 27:2, 150-173
5. Antonio Massarutto, Water Pricing in Italy: Beyond Full-Cost Recovery, Global Issues in Water Policy, Globe volume 9, Water Pricing Experiences and Innovations, Springer, 2015