Commercialization and Decentralization of Local Services Provision

This study evaluates experiences in three Mexican cities to assess whether decentralization and commercialization practices have improved water and sanitation services. The shared data cover the period from 1997 to 2012 and were gathered during extensive field research in 2007-2008 and 2012 that entailed 180 in-depth interviews, data collection from internal government documents, meeting observations, site visits, newspaper articles and archival material.