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solutions to overcome country-level
obstacles in local financing and
disseminate the findings to decisionmakers and practitioners worldwide.
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Increasing the impact and leverage of
Official Development Assistance (ODA) in
funding the water sector;
>> Continue to advocate bilateral ODA and
other concessional finance to be used as
a catalyst to leverage non-ODA funds and
provide technical assistance for project
preparation. This includes proposing
a joint UNSGAB — Office for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Development Assistance Committee
(DAC) event to share best practices and
lessons learned.
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Increasing the availability of data and
information — and where possible,
monitoring all forms of financing across the
water sector;
>> Continue strong and close collaboration
with OECD as a major source of water
financing information.
>> Support the World Bank in developing
a repository of knowledge on how to
leverage private financing and to access
local markets for the sector. Extend the
same support to interested regional and
sub-regional banks.
>> Encourage better knowledge of countrywide expenditures for water through the
Global Annual Assessment of Sanitation
and Drinking Water (GLAAS) and other
relevant initiatives.
>> Encourage donors to report on technical
assistance in the context of GLAAS.
The success of all these efforts depends on
national action and partner activities such as:
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C ountries increase their political
commitment and financial resources to the
water sector;
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Governments identify and remove the
barriers that impede local water and
sanitation utilities from accessing local
capital markets; and
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Governments and municipalities increase
efforts in collecting taxes and user fees
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