Water Engineering and Development Centre

Services for the Urban Poor

Guidance for policymakers, planners and engineers

Andrew Cotton and Kevin Tayler

This set of manuals offers detailed guidance on the planning, design, implementation, operation and maintenance of basic services for the urban poor - based largely on experience from South Asia. It emphasises the need to integrate participatory approaches at the local level with strategic improvements to city level infrastructure. The readership includes policymakers, urban planners, and urban engineers.

Section 1. Guiding Principles

28pp. (250/176) 2000 ISBN: 978 0 906055 78 6

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Section 2. Working with Partners

28pp. (250/176) 2000 ISBN: 978 0 906055 79 3 

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Section 3. Action Planning Guidelines

138pp. (250/176) 2000 ISBN: 978 0 906055 80 9

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Section 3: Action planning guidelines | Download pdf 

Section 3a: Preparing local action plans | Download pdf 

Section 3b: Preparing action plans for networked services | Download pdf 

Section 3c: Consensus building | Download pdf 

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Section 4. Technical Guidelines

218pp. (250/176) 2000 ISBN: 978 0 906055 81 6

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Section 4a: Drainage | Download pdf

Section 4b: Water supply | Download pdf

Section 4c: Sanitation | Download pdf

Section 4d: Access and paving | Download pdf

Section 4e: Solid waste management | Download pdf

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Section 5. From Action Plans to Implementation

40pp. (250/176) 2000 ISBN: 978 0 906055 82 3

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Section 6. Operation and Maintenance

28pp. (250/176) 2000 ISBN: 978 0 906055 83 0 

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