Coproduction of water and wastewater services

This proposal is based on preliminary results of a research proposal that, first, focuses on alternative organisational arrangements to produce urban services, based on informal state-community coproduction practices and collaborations. Second, it intends to systematically explores organisational and technical aspects, institutional and political systems, as well as socio-spatial dynamics of the diversified typologies of institutionalised service coproduction, and the implications they generate.The general aim of this project is to understand and evaluate whether and under which circumstances co-production contributes to structural improvement in service delivery and in living conditions for city-dwellers (with respect to economic viability, environmental soundness and socio-spatial equity and cohesion). This general aim has been declined through two scientific activities:-first, to identify and categorise typologies of institutionalised WSS co-production practices and,-second, to explore and evaluate the effects of ICO practices through in-depth case studies.Four cases are thus proposed to explore institutionalised coproduction in the Global South (Addis Ababa, Cochabamba, Kinshasa, Mumbai, and Hanoi).