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1 Cleaver, F.; Elson, D. 1994. Gender and the modalities of water resources management: Integrating or marginalising women? In SIDA, Gender and water resources management: Report from a workshop held in Stockholm, 1-3 December 1993. Vol.II - The papers presented at the workshop. Stockholm, Sweden: SIDA. 14p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 SID Record No: H016434)
2 Cleaver, F.. 1994. Problems in the planning of rural water supply projects: Lessons from Nkayi District, Zimbabwe. Journal of International Development, 6(1):123-127.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 4269 Record No: H018720)
3 Cleaver, F.. 1998. Gendered incentives and informal institutions: women, men and the management of water. In Merrey, D.; Baviskar, S. (Eds.) Gender Analysis and Reform of Irrigation Management: Concepts, cases, and gaps in knowledge - Proceedings of the Workshop on Gender and Water, 15-19 September 1997, Habarana, Sri Lanka. Colombo, Sri Lanka: IIMI. pp.43-64.
Gender differences ; Water resource management ; Common property ; Resource management ; Water policy ; Women in development ; Households ; Labor ; Poverty ; Decision making ; Institution building ; Incentives / Zimbabwe / Nkayi District
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IIMI 631.7088042 G000 MER Record No: H021510)
4 Franks, T.; Cleaver, F.. 2002. People, livelihoods and decision making in catchment management: A case study from Tanzania. Waterlines, 20(3):7-10.
Water management ; Catchment areas ; Social participation ; Constraints ; Water use ; Households ; Labor ; Living conditions ; Social aspects / Tanzania
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H029681)
5 Cleaver, F.. 1998. Choice, complexity, and change: Gendered livelihoods and the management of water. Agriculture and Human Values, 15:293-299.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 6124 Record No: H030985)
6 Cleaver, F.. 1998; 2002. Incentives and informal institutions: Gender and the management of water. Agriculture and Human Values, Also published in: In Saleth, R. M. (Ed.), 2002. Water resources and economic development. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.pp.506-519. 15:347-360.
Water resource management ; Gender ; Women ; Households ; Labor ; Decision making ; Participatory management ; Policy ; Institutions / Zimbabwe / Nkayi District
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 6125 Record No: H030986)
7 Cleaver, F.. 2005. The inequality of social capital and the reproduction of chronic poverty. World Development, 33(6): 893-906.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H037801)
8 Cleaver, F.; Elson, D. 1995. Women and water resources: Continued marginalisation and new policies. London, UK: IIED. 18p. (Gatekeeper series no.49)
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 3798 Record No: H016511)
9 Cleaver, F.; Franks, T. 2008. Distilling or diluting?: negotiating the water research-policy interface. Water Alternatives, 1(1): 155-174.
(Location: IWMI HQ Record No: H041277)
10 Zeitoun, M.; Lankford, B.; Krueger, T.; Forsyth, T.; Carter, R.; Hoekstra, A. Y.; Taylor, R.; Varis, O.; Cleaver, F.; Boelens, R.; Swatuk, L.; Tickner, D.; Scott, C. A.; Mirumachi, N.; Matthews, Nathanial. 2016. Reductionist and integrative research approaches to complex water security policy challenges. Global Environmental Change, 39:143-154. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.04.010]
Water security ; Water policy ; Environmental effects ; Uncertainty ; Ecosystems ; Economic growth ; Rainfall-runoff relationships
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047786)
This article reviews and contrasts two approaches that water security researchers employ to advance understanding of the complexity of water-society policy challenges. A prevailing reductionist approach seeks to represent uncertainty through calculable risk, links national GDP tightly to hydro-climatological causes, and underplays diversity and politics in society. When adopted uncritically, this approach limits policy-makers to interventions that may reproduce inequalities, and that are too rigid to deal with future changes in society and climate. A second, more integrative, approach is found to address a range of uncertainties, explicitly recognise diversity in society and the environment, incorporate water resources that are less-easily controlled, and consider adaptive approaches to move beyond conventional supply-side prescriptions. The resultant policy recommendations are diverse, inclusive, and more likely to reach the marginalised in society, though they often encounter policy-uptake obstacles. The article concludes by defining a route towards more effective water security research and policy, which stresses analysis that matches the state of knowledge possessed, an expanded research agenda, and explicitly addresses inequities.
11 Whaley, L.; Cleaver, F.. 2017. Can ‘functionality’ save the community management model of rural water supply? Water Resources and Rural Development, 9:56-66. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wrr.2017.04.001]
Water supply ; Rural areas ; Community management ; Models ; Water governance ; Decentralization ; Committees ; Corporate culture ; Sustainability ; Social aspects ; Technology ; Methodology / Africa South of Sahara
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048192)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212608216300274/pdfft?md5=073d6f763292a2b1faed0cf121cbdb00&pid=1-s2.0-S2212608216300274-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H048192.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H048192.pdf
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As attention increasingly turns to the sustainability of rural water supplies - and not simply overall levels of coverage or access - water point functionality has become a core concern for development practitioners and national governments, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Within the long-enduring Community-Based Management (CBM) model this has resulted in increased scrutiny of the “functionality” of the local water point committee (WPC) or similar community management organisation. This paper reviews the literature written from both practice-focused and critical-academic perspectives and identifies three areas that pose challenges to our understanding of water point functionality as it relates to CBM. These concern the relative neglect of (i) the local institutional and socio-economic landscape, (ii) broader governance processes and power dynamics, and (iii) the socio-technical interface. By examining these three areas, the paper engages with the specific issue of WPC functionality, whilst also considering broader issues relating to the framing of problems in development and the methodological and disciplinary ways that these are addressed. Furthermore, by focusing on community management of rural water points, the paper lays the ground for a more substantial critique of the continuing persistence of the CBM model as a central development strategy.
12 Whaley, L.; Cleaver, F.; Mwathunga, E. 2021. Flesh and bones: working with the grain to improve community management of water. World Development, 138:105286. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105286]
Water management ; Community management ; Water governance ; Political aspects ; Institutions ; Policies ; Local government ; Stakeholders ; Committees ; Water supply ; Sustainability ; Economic aspects ; Villages ; Rural areas / Africa / Ethiopia / Malawi / Uganda
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050131)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X20304137/pdfft?md5=0d262a5ac3fe8fb8154398b5f959a271&pid=1-s2.0-S0305750X20304137-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050131.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050131.pdf
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Despite cogent critiques and limited successes, community-based management (CBM) remains central to policies for natural resource management and service delivery. Various approaches have been suggested to strengthen CBM by ‘working with the grain’ of existing social arrangements and relationships. For advocates, such approaches ensure that management arrangements are rooted in local realities and are therefore more likely to be effective. Implementing this approach is, however, methodologically, empirically, and operationally challenging. In this paper, we centre these challenges through a study of community-managed water in rural Ethiopia, Malawi, and Uganda. We examine water management arrangements by undertaking an in-depth social survey of 150 communities in the three countries. We also undertake yearlong studies in 12 communities in Malawi and Uganda involving 30 diary keepers. This focus on the local is complemented by country-level political economy analyses and district-level sustainability assessments. Our multi-country extensive-intensive research design uncovers the flesh and bones of CBM, and provides explanations for our findings. In Ethiopia, water management arrangements are more likely to be fleshed out – fully formed committees often working in conjunction with other institutions. In Malawi and Uganda, water management arrangements tend to be skeleton crews of key individuals. The position we adopt is located between advocacy and critique. We recognise the potential of working with the grain. We also recognise the considerable challenges of operationalising this approach without reducing it to another standardised checklist or toolbox. In an attempt to reconcile this tension, we identify practical entry points and sketch out requirements for a more socially informed, reflexive, and effective approach to working with the grain. Whether this can be operationalised within the logics of mainstream development, and whether it can ‘save’ the CBM model, remain open questions.
13 Rusca, M.; Cleaver, F.. 2022. Unpacking everyday urbanism: practices and the making of (un)even urban waterscapes. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 9(2):e1581. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1581]
Urbanism ; Water governance ; Political Ecology ; Towns ; Infrastructure ; Transformation ; Water supply ; Water access ; Water use ; Institutions ; Households ; Gender
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051047)
https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/wat2.1581
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051047.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051047.pdf
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Inequalities in conditions of access to water are emblematic of contemporary urban life and have long been at the center of urban scholarship. This paper considers the theoretical and empirical potential of a focus on the everyday as a contribution to critical urban water studies. Drawing on research in Political Ecology and Critical Institutionalism, we focus on the intersection of everyday urbanism and water to reflect on whether such perspectives can further understandings of socio-natural inequalities and “real” governance challenges in the urban waterscape. We suggest that a focus on the everyday brings attention to the hybrid arrangements that constitute urban waterscapes and offers new insights to the polycentric nature of water governance, agency, and everyday urban struggles. However, we also outline limitations of these studies in unpacking the concept of the everyday and in capturing the practices through which everyday life is constituted. We explore the potential of an engagement with Practice Theory as a sensitizing lens for developing grounded understandings of everyday life, its constituent practices, and how these change over time. Concurrently, we argue that Practice Theory could be strengthened by drawing on critical approaches that explain everyday urban governance through: (1) the linking of practices to broader patterns of inequality; (2) the multiple social identities of practitioners and the variability in their exercise of agency; (3) the role of institutions as crucial mediating mechanisms and the processes through which practices become enduring institutional arrangements. We, thus, conclude that these approaches are complementary rather than competing.
14 Chitata, T.; Kemerink-Seyoum, J.; Cleaver, F.. 2022. 'Our humanism cannot be captured in the bylaws': how moral ecological rationalities and care shape a smallholder irrigation scheme in Zimbabwe. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 20p. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486221137968]
Irrigation schemes ; Smallholders ; Irrigation management ; Natural resources ; Institutions ; Ecological factors ; Infrastructure ; Groundwater ; Algae ; Farmers ; Social aspects ; Communities / Zimbabwe / Rufaro Irrigation Scheme
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051536)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.1177/25148486221137968
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051536.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051536.pdf
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In this article, we bring concepts of institutional bricolage, moral ecological rationalities and care into engagement, to explain the everyday management of an irrigation scheme in Zimbabwe. In doing this we: (a) emphasise the constant processes of bricolage through which irrigators adapt to changing circumstances and dynamically enact irrigation management; (b) illustrate some of the key features of the contemporary, hybridised moral-ecological rationalities that shape these processes of bricolage; (c) show how motivations to care (for people, the environment and infrastructure) as well as to control shape the bricolaged management arrangements. Through this approach, we aim to contribute to expanding ways of thinking about rationalities, including those that express the aspiration to live well together with human and non-human others, including water and infrastructure. The focus on moral-ecological rationalities is central to our contribution to critical water studies. This sheds light on actual practices of governing water and relationships between society-water/people and the environment. In so doing it helps us to understand the possibilities of caring for natural resources.
15 Palmer (Tally), C.; Tanner, J.; Akanmu, J.; Alamirew, T.; Bamutaze, Y.; Banadda, N.; Cleaver, F.; Faye, S.; Kabenge, I.; Kane, A.; Longe, E.; Nobert, J.; Nsengimana, V.; Speight, V.; Weston, S.; Winter, K.; Woldu, Z. 2023. The adaptive systemic approach: catalysing more just and sustainable outcomes from sustainability and natural resources development research. River Research and Applications, 15p. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.4178]
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H052053)
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It has become increasingly common to include participatory processes, several academic disciplines, and additional wide-ranging ways of knowing, in using research to tackle the escalating environmental problems of the 21st Century. There are barriers to the success of these efforts. In this paper we present the Adaptive Systemic Approach (ASA). The ASA is designed to provide a clear pathway for research related to sustainability issues, river basin problems and natural resource development, and to deliver change towards improved ecological health and social justice outcomes. The design of the ASA rests on three key concepts: complex social-ecological systems, transdisciplinarity, and transformative social learning, together with Strategic Adaptive Management as the theoretically consistent operational process. We identify logical connections between the concepts and Strategic Adaptive Management so that the ASA emerges as a coherent and practical research and praxis pathway. The ASA process is then outlined to support uptake and wider application. We present findings from ASA praxis in a collaborative African research program considering river basin problems in seven countries, where key contextual learnings led to the recognition of five barriers to effective research impact outcomes: (1) Lack of an integrative conceptual grounding. (2) Participatory stakeholder engagement flawed by epistemic injustice. (3) Inadequate transdisciplinary team building. (4) Insufficient inclusion of learning, reflection, and systemic adaptation. (5) Inflated claims of probable impact in terms of creating change towards improved ecological health and social justice. We reflect on the ways the ASA contributes to breaching these barriers. Early key learnings from ASA praxis leads us to suggest that the ASA has practical value for policy makers, practitioners and researchers seeking pathways for fair and sustainable river management, and more broadly in natural resource development.
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