Donors’ Interest in Water and Sanitation Subsectors

Souha El Khanji ()
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Souha El Khanji: Lebanese University; Lebanese International University; Middle East Enlight Research

The European Journal of Development Research, 2022, vol. 34, issue 2, No 2, 654 pages

Abstract: Abstract International efforts have taken place to alleviate poverty by adopting several obligations within the international society; one of these obligations is the provision of safe access to water and sanitation. The MDGs helped people around the world to gain improved water sources and better sanitation. Although the sectoral aid increased from 20% between 1990 and 1992 (only 4.9% distributed for water supply and sanitation (W&S)) to 35% between 2002 and 2004 (only 3.9% allocated for W&S), facts showed that the allocated aid was biased to social aims rather than infrastructural targets. In this study, I am focusing on the donors’ commitment for W&S, whether their ODA for these two sub-sectors is aligned with the intentions of the SDGs. I find that donors allocated W&S aid by focusing on governments in general with higher governance indicators, and that poorer countries received a higher allocation of aid.

Keywords: Water and sanitation; MDGs; SDGs; Official development assistance (ODA); Donors’ commitments; Governance; Tobit regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1057/s41287-021-00367-3

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