Designing effective water policy: capacity and effectiveness of reforms in developing countries

Abstract

Designing effective water policy in developing countries is challenging for many reasons, including limited capacity to formulate and implement policy. This paper examines major water policy reforms in two exemplary cases, Malaysia and the Metro Manila region of the Philippines, considering the quality of regulatory design and how this relates to policy capacity. The paper identifies ways in which policy design can anticipate challenges associated with capacity limitations.

Keywords

• Policy design
• water policy
• Asia
• policy capacity