NEW IBNET

The New International Benchmarking Network for Water and Sanitation Services (New IBNet) is currently being designed to become an independent global information system and partnership. New IBNet will invite utilities and other service providers, regulators and researchers, to systematically share data on service delivery performance and on management practices. Based on such data, New IBNet will offer analyses and other data-based services that will allow IBNET members - water and sanitation service providers, regulators, and others - to take informed decision, including on management action and on investments, and thus to improve their performance... The International Benchmarking Network for Water and Sanitation (IBNET) was set up by the World Bank in 1994 to encourage water and sanitation service providers to improve their performance by establishing a database that would offer, amongst other things, a functional benchmarking tool in multiple languages, utility-specific reports,..