A workshop entitled Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) of Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Reforms was attended by around 90 participants on October 28, 2008. PSIA is the analysis of the distributional impacts of policy reforms on the well-being or welfare of different stakeholder groups, with a particular focus on the poor and vulnerable. PSIA also examines vested interests to assess and address the political economy of reform, issues of sustainability and risks of policy reform.
The mortality of children under the age of 5 years in Yemen is twice that of other countries in the Middle East and the North Africa region, and half of these deaths are due to diarrhea. The gender and educational enrolment impacts are also considerable, with women and girls spending large parts of each day fetching water.
The workshop was conducted by the Technical Secretariat (TS)/ Reform of the Institutional Framework in the Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Sector in cooperation with the Yemeni-German Technical Cooperation Water Sector Program and the World Bank.
Read more: Yemen Observer, 11 Nov 2008
See also the World Bank 2007 report “Yemen’s water sector reform program – a poverty and social impact analysis“
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