Fiscal decentralisation and urban sanitation services in Nepal - Case study:

Table of Contents

• Fiscal decentralisation and urban sanitation services in Nepal 1
• August 2024 1
• A report on the status of decentralisation of urban sanitation services 2
• National decentralisation context 2
• Executive Summary 2
• National sanitation context 3
• The case of Lahan Municipality 3
• The context 3
• Responsibilities and accountability 3
• Planning 3
• Funding 4
• Conclusions and recommendations 4
• National level 4
• Local level 5
• Table of contents 6
• Abbreviations 7
• Acknowledgements 7
• 1.1 Objectives and methodology 8
• 1. Introduction 8
• 1.2 Report structure 9
• 2.1 The socioeconomic context 10
• 2.2 Decentralisation status 10
• 2.2.1 Decentralisation policy and legal context 10
• 2. National socioeconomic and administrative context 10
• 2.2.2 Implementation status 11
• 3.1 Access to sanitation 13
• 3. National-level sanitation services 13
• Each year more than 13000 children under five years of age die of diarrhoea-related diseases. 14
• 3.2 Institutional arrangements for sanitation 14
• 3.3 Policy and strategic framework or sanitation 15
• 3.4 National funding arrangements for sanitation 15
• 3.4.1 Overview of funding amounts and sources 15
• 3.4.2 Sources of funding for sanitation at the local level 20
• 4.1 Geographic and socioecenomic context 23
• 4. Decentralisation of sanitation services the case of Lahan 23
• 4.2 Sanitation services in Lahan 24
• 4.3 Institutional arrangements at the local level 25
• 4.3.1 Water services 26
• 4.3.2 Sanitation services 27
• 4.3.3 Solid waste management services 27
• 4.4 Planning and financing of sanitation in Lahan 27
• 4.4.1 Planning 27
• 4.4.2 WASH budget and expenditure in Lahan 28
• 5.1 Conclusions 31
• 5.2 Recommendations 31
• 5.2.1 National level 31
• 5. Conclusions and recommendations 31
• 5.2.2 Local level 32
• Annex 1 Key informants 33
• Contacts 34