Innovation and partnership bond the five institutions of the World Bank Group (WBG): the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA), which together form the World Bank; the International Finance Corporation (IFC); the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA); and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). The World Bank Group is one of the world's largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries. It uses financial resources and extensive experience to help our client countries to reduce poverty, increase economic growth, and improve quality of life. To ensure that countries can access the best global expertise and help generate cutting-edge knowledge, the World Bank Group is constantly seeking to improve the way it works. Key priorities include delivering measurable results, promoting openness and transparency in development, and improving access to development information and data.
The Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) is an international partnership to help the poor gain sustained access to water supply and sanitation services. Administered by the World Bank with financial support from several bi- and multi-lateral and private donors, WSP is a decentralized partnership and operates through offices in Africa, East Asia, Latin America and South Asia. A major thrust of the programs is to help its clients prepare for and implement actions towards meeting the water and sanitation (WSS) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In pursuing their mission, WSP staff provide advisory support to projects and policies, help identify and disseminate best practices and lessons from experience across countries, assist clients in the implementation of pilot projects to test out new ideas and facilitate informal networks of practitioners and sector stakeholders. Additional information about WSP can be found on the program website (www.wsp.org). WSP is administratively a part of the World Bank's Transport, Water and Information & Communications Technology Department (TWI) in the Sustainable Development Network (SDN) Vice Presidency.
WSP’s FY11-15 Business Plan is based on a global strategy ‘FY2009-2018: Scaling Up Sustainable Services”, which articulates WSP’s proposed strategic response to identified sector challenges affecting the poor through capacity building, technical assistance and knowledge. The Business Plan identifies six business areas where the program could have the best opportunity to affect large-scale change in sector performance: scaling up rural sanitation and hygiene; creating sustainable services through domestic private sector participation; supporting poor-inclusive WSS sector reform; targeting the urban poor and improving services in small towns; mitigating and adapting WSS delivery to climate change impacts; and delivering WSS services in fragile states. These areas were identified through a process of embedding a results-based framework throughout WSP’s country, regional and global work programs.
In Africa , WSP currently operates offices in the following countries—Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Niger, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Benin, Zambia, and with a fragile states program in DRC, Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe. The regional office is located in Nairobi, Kenya. The Regional Team Leader is accountable to the Program Manager in Washington DC. WSP’s business areas in Africa reflect the intersection between sector demands and expertise the Program can offer. These business areas show where WSP’s strategic technical assistance and advisory services is focused to support reforms and influence sector investments in Africa. WSP currently focuses on scaling up rural sanitation and hygiene, creating sustainable services through domestic private sector participation, supporting poor-inclusive WSS sector reform, targeting the urban poor and improving services in small towns, and delivering WSS services in fragile states.
In its recognition of the vital role of economic and financial evidence to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and scale of sanitation and hygiene programs, the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) conducts significant technical work to support governments and sector partners in decision making. There continue to be many direct demands from clients and partners, and many WSP and AAA products within the water practice that require quality and relevant economics components. For example, in 2007 WSP launched the Economics of Sanitation Initiative (ESI), which has already been implemented in 35 countries to provide essential economic evidence to decision makers. Under another program that has been running for over five years – the Domestic Private Service Provision (DPSP) – financial analyses and market assessments provide key evidence to decide the type and mechanism of support to be provided to the private sector. New pipeline projects focus on the economics of fecal sludge management, global economics evidence reviews, different models of private sector participation, financing mechanisms and results-based financing (e.g. conditional cash transfers, vouchers, output-based aid). The growing portfolio of projects requires more capacity within WSP to deliver on these and future requests.
The selected candidate will report to Principal Regional Team Leader of TWIAF and will be located in one of the WSP focus countries in the region.
Note: If the selected candidate is a current Bank Group staff member with a Regular or Open-Ended appointment, s/he will retain his/her Regular or Open-Ended appointment. All others will be offered a 2 year term appointment.
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The Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) is an international partnership to help the poor gain sustained access to water supply and sanitation services. Administered by the World Bank with financial support from several bi- and multi-lateral and private donors, WSP is a decentralized partnership and operates through offices in Africa, East Asia, Latin America and South Asia. A major thrust of the programs is to help its clients prepare for and implement actions towards meeting the water and sanitation (WSS) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In pursuing their mission, WSP staff provide advisory support to projects and policies, help identify and disseminate best practices and lessons from experience across countries, assist clients in the implementation of pilot projects to test out new ideas and facilitate informal networks of practitioners and sector stakeholders. Additional information about WSP can be found on the program website (www.wsp.org). WSP is administratively a part of the World Bank's Transport, Water and Information & Communications Technology Department (TWI) in the Sustainable Development Network (SDN) Vice Presidency.
WSP’s FY11-15 Business Plan is based on a global strategy ‘FY2009-2018: Scaling Up Sustainable Services”, which articulates WSP’s proposed strategic response to identified sector challenges affecting the poor through capacity building, technical assistance and knowledge. The Business Plan identifies six business areas where the program could have the best opportunity to affect large-scale change in sector performance: scaling up rural sanitation and hygiene; creating sustainable services through domestic private sector participation; supporting poor-inclusive WSS sector reform; targeting the urban poor and improving services in small towns; mitigating and adapting WSS delivery to climate change impacts; and delivering WSS services in fragile states. These areas were identified through a process of embedding a results-based framework throughout WSP’s country, regional and global work programs.
In Africa , WSP currently operates offices in the following countries—Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Niger, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Benin, Zambia, and with a fragile states program in DRC, Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe. The regional office is located in Nairobi, Kenya. The Regional Team Leader is accountable to the Program Manager in Washington DC. WSP’s business areas in Africa reflect the intersection between sector demands and expertise the Program can offer. These business areas show where WSP’s strategic technical assistance and advisory services is focused to support reforms and influence sector investments in Africa. WSP currently focuses on scaling up rural sanitation and hygiene, creating sustainable services through domestic private sector participation, supporting poor-inclusive WSS sector reform, targeting the urban poor and improving services in small towns, and delivering WSS services in fragile states.
In its recognition of the vital role of economic and financial evidence to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and scale of sanitation and hygiene programs, the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) conducts significant technical work to support governments and sector partners in decision making. There continue to be many direct demands from clients and partners, and many WSP and AAA products within the water practice that require quality and relevant economics components. For example, in 2007 WSP launched the Economics of Sanitation Initiative (ESI), which has already been implemented in 35 countries to provide essential economic evidence to decision makers. Under another program that has been running for over five years – the Domestic Private Service Provision (DPSP) – financial analyses and market assessments provide key evidence to decide the type and mechanism of support to be provided to the private sector. New pipeline projects focus on the economics of fecal sludge management, global economics evidence reviews, different models of private sector participation, financing mechanisms and results-based financing (e.g. conditional cash transfers, vouchers, output-based aid). The growing portfolio of projects requires more capacity within WSP to deliver on these and future requests.
The selected candidate will report to Principal Regional Team Leader of TWIAF and will be located in one of the WSP focus countries in the region.
Note: If the selected candidate is a current Bank Group staff member with a Regular or Open-Ended appointment, s/he will retain his/her Regular or Open-Ended appointment. All others will be offered a 2 year term appointment.
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