Description
The general objective of the Regulasan Project is to contribute to the improvement of regulatory activities through the transfer of knowledge, actions to improve governance, implementation of methodologies and processes, planning, instrumentalization of entities, training and qualification of technical staff and development of studies on topics of national interest, contributing to the advancement of regulation and the consequent improvement of the quality of public services, with a disseminating effect throughout the country.
Specific objectives:
• Provide technical assistance to 5 (five) regulatory entities, in projects of interest to these entities, in the areas of: regulations, governance, social participation and accountability, information systems, quality regulation, economic and financial evaluation and tariffs;
• Develop technical studies, including: regulatory accounting model, technical study aimed at building a subsidy model for low-income families, and proposing a financing strategy in the water supply and sewage sector;
• Train technicians and leaders of the sanitation sector, through 2 (two) in-person editions of the Brazilian Course on Regulation and Inspection of Water Supply and Sanitation Services for technicians from regulatory entities, providers and municipal, state and federal governments (transformed at the end of the Distance Learning – DL course, including an application with moderation and tutoring);
•Hold an International Seminar on Regulation and Inspection of Water Supply and Sanitation Services; and
•Prepare a set of 6 (six) publications that reflect the various actions of technical assistance and technical studies.
Regulasan Project Products:
•Product 1: Adjusted Work Plan and Methodology
•Product 2: Preliminary Technical Report
•Product I-1: Technical Report on Action I – Adequacy and Formulation of Standards and Regulatory Instruments for the State Agency for the Regulation of Public Services of Mato Grosso do Sul – AGEPAN (acronym in Portuguese)
•Product I-1: Technical Report on Action I – Adequacy and Formulation of Standards and Regulatory Instruments for the Municipal Regulatory Agency for Delegated Public Services of Cachoeiro de Itapemirim – AGERSA (acronym in Portuguese)
•Product I-1: Technical Report on Action I – Adequacy and Formulation of Standards and Regulatory Instruments for the Intermunicipal Sanitation Regulatory Agency – ARIS (acronym in Portuguese)
•Product X.1: Study on Sources of Funds and Financing Strategy in the Water Supply and Sanitation Sector – National and international experiences of financing models and sources of funds applicable to the basic sanitation sector.
•Product XI.1: Study on the Subsidy Model for Low Income Families Applicable to Water Supply and Sanitation Services – National and international experiences of subsidies practiced in the basic sanitation sector.
•Product 3: International Seminar Report
The Regulasan Project is a milestone in the subnational regulation of water and sewage services in Brazil. The experiences and lessons coming out of this initiative will certainly be able to guide new advances for regulatory activities in the Sanitation sector, notably in the provision of water supply and sewage services.
Criteria 9/11
- ACCESSIBILITY
- ALIGNMENT WITH SDG 1,3,4,6 AND/OR 11
- RACE AND GENDER ISSUES
- ATTENTION TO CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
- LOW COST
- SOCIAL DIFFUSION
- ADMINISTRATIVE EFFICIENCY
- ADHERENCE AND CONTINUITY AT LOCAL LEVEL
- WASH INITIATIVE
- CLIMATE RESILIENCE
- SUSTAINABILITY
The Regulasan Project is carried out under the Interáguas Program (of the Brazilian Water and Sanitation Agency - ANA), which is the result of international cooperation between the Brazilian Government and the World Bank - financing agent and technical partner of said Program.
Also as a partnership via international cooperation is the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), which also acted for the implementation of Regulasan.
The project deals directly with subnational public regulatory agencies, with the provision of selecting 5 agencies through public selection for participation in the project.
Regulatory Agencies for water supply and sewage services
Regional (five Brazilian states)
2015 to 2018
Public selection of 5 (five) agencies regulating water supply and sewage services, to be the beneficiaries of the contracted technical assistance, seeking, in the selection, the representation of the multiplicity of existing arrangements in the country by scope of action (State, Municipal and Consortium):
• State Agency for Regulation of Public Services of Mato Grosso do SUL – AGEPAN/MS (acronym in Portuguese);
• Tocantinense Regulatory Agency – ATR/TO;
• Municipal Agency for Regulation of Delegated Public Services of Cachoeira do Itapemirim/ES;
• Regulatory Agency for Sanitation Services of the Piracicaba, Capivari and Jundiaí Rivers Basins – ARES-PCJ/SP; and,
• Intermunicipal Sanitation Regulatory Agency – ARIS/SC.
Among the regional training, the Project comprises four activities, in the cities of Campo Grande-MS, Palmas-TO, Americana-SP and Florianópolis-SC, each with specific themes of interest to the regulation of basic sanitation.
The selection process was conducted through a public call for proposals published on the platforms of the project’s promoting entity: Public Call No. 33/2015.
The agencies that participated in adhering to the Program Contract and the proposal in the Regulasan Project, which it uses, provided for the use of indicators extracted from the SNIS (National Sanitation Information System, acronym in Portuguese) to measure the results achieved with the project. This information was presented by each agency in its annual management reports.
The Project is developed under the Water Sector Development Program – INTERÁGUAS, as a result of the loan agreement granted by the World Bank. For the implementation of the Program, the Ministry of Cities had a Technical Cooperation Project with IICA – Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (Project BRA/IICA/13/005), through which Regulasan was implemented.
