Water Supply and Sanitation in The Philippines - Responsibility For Water Supply and Sanitation

Responsibility For Water Supply and Sanitation

Despite several attempts to introduce a comprehensive institutional sector structure, overlapping responsibilities exist in many cases. On the other hand, this may be why the sector remains highly fragmented. In the last decades, Philippine governments kept introducing new sector models, often without completely abolishing the old ones.

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