1 See, for example, the early Slum Improvement Project work in Hyderabad, India, funded by the-then Overseas Development Adminstration (ODA, now DFID) of the UK.
2 The Building Municipal Capacity Series is a series of sourcebooks for local government capacity building funded by the DFID Knowledge and Research programme, and published by Earthscan.
3 Plummer, 2000.
4 Case studies are available at www.ghkint.com/publications and www.undp.org/pppue.
5 See the work of the Water and Sanitation Program; and the World Bank Private Sector Development Notes.
6 Previous publications have focused on the importance of partnerships between civil society and municipalities. There is no doubt that more municipal capacity building could be undertaken in this area, and a subsequent volume of this series is intended to develop municipal capacity in relation to civil society.