Introducing Commercial Finance into Water Sector in Developing Countries

This guidance note provides a step-by-step framework for building a market for commercial finance in the water sector. Readers of all levels of understanding of commercial finance will benefit from this framework, which is designed to help practitioners with not only executing a commercial finance deal but, more important, building a market for commercial finance in a developing market. Readers who are well versed in commercial finance may be able to skim through some of the concepts and structures introduced. Many of the concepts are introduced from each of the three main stakeholders, perspectives, creating an opportunity to understand how each of these actors works with the others and what roles they play at each stage of building the market for commercial finance in water.