1. Web Resources for Building Sustainable Regulatory Institutions
Mark A. Jamison
Director and Gunter Professor

2. Seven sections Narratives Cases Annotated Reading List Glossary (11
languages)
FAQs

3. New Portal for Fragile States
Support from PPIAF and the World Bank
Advice and reviews from
Technical Advisors
Strategic Advisors
PURC course participants

4. Why this matters Conflict is devastating Peace is fragile
Almost 60 million displaced globally
Peace is fragile
End of conflict comes from compromise
Infrastructure has been destroyed

5. Burundi 12 years of conflict ending in 2014
Electricity connections halved
Urban water access rates dropped from 70 percent to 60 percent

6. Côte D'Ivoire Civil war and violent conflicts until around 2011
Over 700,000 displaced persons
Water and sewage services collapsed in about 60% of the country
Risks of diarrhea, cholera, typhoid fever, dysentery, measles and poliomyelitis
Improved water up nearly 15%
Electric service lost in north and west
Consumption up 30%

7. Why this matters Regulatory commitment impacts service
Privatization + commitment  more than 3/4ths of Caribbean teledensity improvement
Commitment  15% - 25% more electric generating capacity
More nuanced in water
Windows of opportunity

8. New Portal

9. Strategy and Execution
Forms of regulation
Contract
License
Law
Self-regulation
Sub-national
Strategy and Execution
Guiding coalition – urgency, vision, strategy, communication
Empowerment
Early wins

10. Self-assessment tool Uses
Economic activity
Political stability
Social cohesion
Governance
Security
Current infrastructure performance
Uses
Generate graphical representation of current situation
Focus on a specific sector and generate a visual representation
Share perspectives through engaging multiple stakeholders
Trace evolution of country’s situation

11. Example questions 2. Income Levels
Most people can afford to pay for basic electricity, water, transport, and telecommunications services.
Almost never
Seldom
Sometimes
Often
Almost always

12. Example questions 3. Access to Water Infrastructure
The population has access to clean water.
Almost never (less than 20% has access)
Seldom (21%-40% has access)
Sometimes (41% - 60% has access)
Often (61% - 80% has access)
Almost always (81% - 100% has access)

13. Example Output

14. Country taxonomies
Same categories: Economic, Political, Social, Governance, Security, Current infrastructure performance
Situations and case studies
Crisis – Minimal systems and services
Rebuild & Reform – Recover from failure
Transition – Moving from failed
Transformation – Maturing
Resilience – High performance

15. Annotated reading list
20 references
Fragile State Institutional Design
Governance
Privatization
Quality, Social and Environment

16. Performance targets for fragile states – Addressing issues of poor and limited data when setting and monitoring performance targets
Targets for Transition/Transformation States - Performance target setting and monitoring in more advanced countries
Possible Key Performance Indicators for Fragile States
Possible Key Performance Indicators for Transition/Transformation States
Incentives - Ways to incentivize service expansion, performance and cost containment
Public Participation - Effective strategies for involving the public
Improper Political Interference - Protecting work from improper political interference while maintaining accountability