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© 2008
Faculty of Planning and Public Policy (School of Planning), CEPT University
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Courses |
• Development Innovations Seminar
• Infrastructure Planning Studio
• Housing Studio
• Infrastructure Finance
• Housing for the Poor |
| Expertise |
• Urban Development and Housing
• Water Supply and Sanitation
• Urban and Infrastructure Finance |
| Profile |
Meera Mehta is currently a Professor Emeritus at CEPT University and an international consultant with 30 years of experience in water, urban development and infrastructure finance. She joined CEPT in 1979 and was the Director of School for Planning before joining the USAID’s FIRE Project in India (1994-1999) and later the World Bank in India and its Water and Sanitation Program in Africa (2000-2006). She has also consulted for a large number of international agencies (including ADB, DFID, UNICEF, USAID and Government of Netherlands), national and local governments, leading NGOs (Gates Foundation, WaterAid and HIC) and several infrastructure and housing financial institutions. She holds a doctoral degree in economics. |
| Recent Significant Projects / Publications |
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“Exploring the microfinance option for water and sanitation in Asia and Africa” Study and report for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 2008 |
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“Financing water and sanitation at local level” – a study of 15 countries for WaterAid, UK 2008 (jointly with Dinesh Mehta) |
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“How can reforming African water utilities tap local financial markets? Insights and recommendations from practitioners’ workshop, South Africa” for the Water and Sanitation Program Africa, 2007 (jointly with Rachel Cardone and Thomas Fugelsnes) |
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“Guidance note for the establishment of country level sector information and monitoring systems (SIMS) for water supply and sanitation” for the Water and Sanitation Program Africa, 2007 (jointly with Anne Christensen and Thomas Fugelsnes) |
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“Helping a new breed of private water operators access infrastructure finance: Microfinance for community water schemes in Kenya” PPIAF Gridlines no. 25, 2007, (jointly with Kameel Virjee and Sarah Njoroge) |
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“Meeting the finance challenge for water supply and sanitation: Incentives to promote reforms, leverage resources and improve targeting”. Water and Sanitation Program and World Bank. 2003. |
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“The challenge of financing sanitation: for meeting the Millennium Development Goals”. Paper commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of Environment as a think piece for the Commission on Sustainable Development. 2004. (Jointly with Andreas Knapp). |
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Member of the advisory group for the First Urban Water Awards in India by MOUD and ASCI 2008. |
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Member of the Consortium Advisory Group (CAG) for DFID funded Ripple Project in Ethiopia. |
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