Os indicadores do saneamento medem a universalização em áreas de vulnerabilidade social?

Abstract

ResumoOs indicadores de saneamento, no contexto regulatório, servem de base para avaliar a evolução temporal da eficiência da empresa regulada. Assim, demanda conceituação, definições e esclarecimentos quanto à realidade do uso de indicadores adotados para medida de The objective is to analyze the peculiarities of urban areas for regulatory management, through the adoption of contractual indicators. Thus, the aim of this article was to discuss the application of concepts of regulated firms or benchmarking that can meet the peculiarities of services provision in urban vulnerable areas.

Surveillance of the drinking water quality din the Legal Amazon: analysis of vulnerable areas

“…Researches on the Legal Amazon comprising the sanitation subject are related to environmental vulnerability indicators 20 , aquifer's water vulnerabilities 21 , and sanitation indicators related to populations in situations of social vulnerability 22,23 .…”

Public water supply and sanitation policies and inclusive development of the urban poor in Brazil

“…The internal validation of this method is supported by terminology used in the literature by WatSan experts, and our experience in the WatSan and ID knowledge fields. Finally, we verified whether the policy was legally binding, having a higher potential to be enforced and successfully implemented, particularly when an (regulatory) organisation is designated to monitor and penalise non-compliance (Willems, 2004;OECD, 2012;Guimarães et al, 2014). This step gives ground for future research on how an inclusive policy design is being translated into practice.…”

“…WatSan strategies do not automatically focus on the poor (Guimarães et al, 2014;Murtha et al, 2015;Nyarko et al, 2016). They must contain specific incentives for inclusion of the (urban) poor in WSS (Berg & Mugisha, 2010;Guimarães et al, 2014;Nyarko et al, 2016), while accommodating the different interests of actorsfrom WSS providers to potential users (Bisung et al, 2016). Moreover, successful WatSan public policies depend on the governance tools in place to facilitate the inclusion of disadvantaged people (Guimarães et al, 2016;Marques et al, 2016).…”

“…A bottleneck in reaching universal access is the limited mandate of WSS providers, often forbidden by the government to deliver services in informal settlements (Obrist et al, 2006;Guimarães et al, 2014Guimarães et al, , 2016 as this might inadvertently 'legalise' these settlements. Hence, the (A.2) access to WSS even if the poor do not have formal housing indicator is relevant as a precondition to access WSS.…”