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1 online resource, When examining the relationship between urban governance and improved service provision in the Global South, there is frequently a gap between the rhetoric and the reality. Informal, practice-based local governance processes that aim to produce better urban services often diverge from official governance prescriptions and mechanisms for service delivery within the institutional sphere. This book explores the complex area of urban governance assessment, focusing on the issue of sustainable water supplies for the urban poor. Adapting the UN-Habitat Urban Governance Index, the author explores th, Vendor-supplied metadata, Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Governance, good governance and urban governance; Local, informal, needs-driven, practice-based governance relationships and arrangements; The case of technical water committees in the Caracas Metropolitan Region; Investigating urban governance for better water provisions; Overview of the book; Chapter 1: Urban Governance and Water Supply Systems; 1.1. Urban Governance and Neoliberalism; Neoliberalism and the city; Urban governance within the neoliberal project; 1.2. Urban Governance and Service Delivery, Neoliberalism, structural adjustment and the cityStructural adjustment and the delivery of urban services; Urban service delivery and community involvement; Informal systems of access to urban water services; Institutionalised co-production of water services as a way forward; Chapter 2: Assessing Urban Governance: A Principle Perspective; 2.1. Urban Governance Assessments; 2.2. Urban Governance Index (UGI) Principles and Indicators; UGI principles; 1. Effectiveness (including: efficiency, subsidiarity and strategic vision), 2. Equity (including: sustainability, gender equality and intergenerational equity)3. Participation (including: citizenship, consensus orientation and civic engagement); 4. Accountability (including: transparency, rule of law and responsiveness); UGI…