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1 van Koppen, Barbara. 2013. Multiple-use water services: accountability in public service delivery. AGRIDEAL Magazine, 2(September):80-82.
Multiple use ; Water resources ; Domestic water ; Public services ; Pumps ; Community development ; Irrigation systems ; Infrastructure
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046259)
http://www.agriconnect.co.za/fanrpan/agri-deal/digital-edition/book/49-agrideal-september-2013/8-agrideal.html?tmpl=component
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046259.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046259.pdf
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2 Chenoweth, J.; Malcolm, R.; Pedley, S.; Kaime, T. 2013. Household water security and the human right to water and sanitation. In Lankford, B.; Bakker, K.; Zeitoun, M.; Conway, D. (Eds.). Water security: principles, perspectives and practices. Oxon, UK: Routledge. pp.307-317. (Earthscan Water Text Series)
Households ; Water security ; Sanitation ; Water quality ; Water rights ; Living standards ; Human rights ; Public services ; Case studies / Kenya / Ethiopia / Kisumu / Addis Ababa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G662 IND Record No: H046281)
3 van Koppen, Barbara; Smits, S.; del Rio, C. R.; Thomas, J. 2014. Scaling up multiple use water services: accountability in the water sector. Warwickshire, UK: Practical Action Publishing. 89p.
Water use efficiency ; Domestic water ; Drinking water ; Water allocation ; Public services ; Public sector ; Local government ; Sanitation ; Public health ; Irrigation ; Poverty ; Employment / Nepal / South Africa / India / Tanzania
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H046385)
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4 Damayanthi, M. K. N.; Gamage, D. 2006. Impact of the cease-fire agreement on socio-economic development in the villages adjacent to the conflict zone in Sri Lanka: a case study of three villages in the Anuradhapura District. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute (HARTI). 61p. (HARTI Research Study 116)
Socioeconomic development ; Villages ; Agreements ; Conflict ; Social aspects ; Environmental factors ; Agricultural production ; Households ; Living standards ; Income ; Land use ; Food security ; Food consumption ; Rice ; Public services ; Labor ; Case studies / Sri Lanka / Anuradhapura / Medawachchiya / Thammannakulama / Mahakoongaskada / Pul Eliya
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 338.9 G744 DAM Record No: H046404)
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5 Cambodia. Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology. 2003. Training manual for participatory irrigation management and development in Cambodia. Module 2. Participatory irrigation management and development: policy, legal and institutional framework. Phnom Penh, Cambodia: Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology. 36p.
Participatory management ; Irrigation management ; Irrigation development ; Training programmes ; Public services ; Farmers ; Water user associations ; Legal aspects ; Committees / Cambodia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 631.587 G700 CAM Record No: H046424)
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6 Malik, Ravinder Paul Singh; Prathapar, Sanmugam A.; Marwah, Madhavi. 2014. Revitalizing canal irrigation: towards improving cost recovery. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 52p. (IWMI Working Paper 160) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2014.211]
Canal irrigation ; Irrigation systems ; Cost recovery ; Farmers ; Irrigation water ; Budgets ; Fund ; Investment ; Efficiency ; Public services / Pakistan / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H046620)
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Cost recovery from irrigation in almost all the countries presents a dismal picture. Low cost recovery coupled with declining government finances has led to the deterioration of both the quality of the built infrastructure and institutions managing and governing such infrastructure. This has created a vicious circle of low cost recovery, poor maintenance of infrastructure, inadequate and unreliable water supply, inefficient and corrupt institutions, and unwillingness of the farmers to pay. Breaking this vicious circle primarily requires identifying ways to improve availability of financial resources. Improving cost recovery from all users, including irrigators of the water, offers one of the most important avenues for raising financial resources. The present study examines some of the important issues that impinge on improving the cost recovery in canal irrigation, and assesses the feasibility of some of the efforts being made to improve cost recovery in irrigation to revitalize canal irrigation.
7 Bekchanov, Maksud; Lamers, J. P. A. 2016. Economic costs of reduced irrigation water availability in Uzbekistan (Central Asia) Regional Environmental Change, 21p. (Online first). [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-016-0961-z]
Economic aspects ; Macroeconomics ; Costs ; Irrigation water ; Water availability ; Water supply ; Water governance ; Water use ; Water power ; Agriculture ; Unemployment ; Farmland ; Land use ; Income ; River basins ; Downstream ; Energy consumption ; Models ; Public services ; Resource management ; Value added ; Household consumption / Central Asia / Uzbekistan / Aral Sea Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047544)
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Reduced river runoff and expected upstream infrastructural developments are both potential threats to irrigation water availability for the downstream countries in Central Asia. Although it has been recurrently mentioned that a reduction in water supply will hamper irrigation in the downstream countries, the magnitude of associated economic losses, economy-wide repercussions on employment rates, and degradation of irrigated lands has not been quantified as yet. A computable general equilibrium model is used to assess the economy-wide consequences of a reduced water supply in Uzbekistan—a country that encompasses more than half of the entire irrigated croplands in Central Asia. Modeling findings showed that a 10–20 % reduction in water supply, as expected in the near future, may reduce the areas to be irrigated by 241,000–374,000 hectares and may cause unemployment to a population of 712–868,000, resulting in a loss for the national income of 3.6–4.3 %. A series of technical, financial, and institutional measures, implementable at all levels starting from the farm to the basin scale, are discussed for reducing the expected water risks. The prospects of improving the basin-wide water management governance, increasing water and energy use efficiency, and establishing the necessary legal and institutional frameworks for enhancing the introduction of needed technological and socioeconomic change are argued as options for gaining more regional water security and equity.
8 Kurian, M.; Ardakanian, R.; Goncalves Veiga, L.; Meyer, K. 2016. Resources, services and risks: how can data observatories bridge the science-policy divide in environmental governance? Dresden, Germany: Springer. 75p.
Resource management ; Environmental management ; Governance ; Collective action ; Soil conservation ; Water conservation ; Wastewater treatment ; Water reuse ; Watershed management ; Water supply ; Periurban agriculture ; Ecology ; Political aspects ; Decentralization ; Public services ; Decision making ; Decision support systems ; Disaster risk management ; Flooding ; Drought ; Case studies / Lao People's Democratic Republic / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 025.32 G000 KUR Record No: H047608)
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9 Balasubramanya, Soumya; Evans, B.; Ahmed, R.; Habib, A.; Asad, N. S. M.; Vuong, L.; Rahman, M.; Hasan, M.; Dey, D.; Camargo-Valero, M. 2016. Pump it up: making single-pit emptying safer in rural Bangladesh. Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, 6(3):456-464. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/washdev.2016.049]
Rural areas ; Faecal sludge ; Faecal coliforms ; Sewage effluent disposal ; Sludge treatment ; Latrines ; Sanitation ; Health hazards ; Helminths ; Liquid wastes ; Public services ; State intervention ; Pumping / Bangladesh
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047856)
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Safe emptying and disposal of fecal sludge from pit latrines in rural areas has become a priority for the Government of Bangladesh. In this paper, we calculate the volume and characterize the hazards of managing sludge to identify technologies for safely emptying rural single pits. In Bhaluka subdistrict, an estimated 15,000 m3 of sludge is produced annually. Physical, chemical, and microbial analysis of samples of sludge taken from pit latrines indicate that the sludge has a high moisture content of around 90%, a C:N ration of 10:1, and a helminth presence of 41 eggs/g. In a field test of alternative emptying technologies, simple pumps such as the gulper emerged as feasible for use in rural areas, due to the liquid nature of the sludge, narrow roads, and limited incomes of rural households. The results suggest that current practices of emptying liquid sludge manually without any protective equipment poses risks to those who handle sludge, and the process needs to be semi-mechanized with immediate effect. These results are being used by the Bangladesh government to design policy for sludge management. In the near future, an organized service that safely empties single pits and transports sludge for treatment needs to be urgently designed.
10 McNicholl, D.; McRobie, A.; Cruickshank, H. 2017. Characteristics of stakeholder networks supporting local government performance improvements in rural water supply: sases from Ghana, Malawi, and Bolivia. Water Alternatives, 10(2):541-561.
Local government ; Public services ; Performance testing ; Rural areas ; Water supply ; Stakeholders ; Institutional development ; Case studies / Ghana / Bolivia / Malawi
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048170)
http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol10/v10issue2/369-a10-2-19/file
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H048170.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H048170.pdf
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A study of local governments in Ghana, Malawi, and Bolivia applies social network analysis to identify characteristics of stakeholder networks supporting performance improvements in these institutions. Seven local governments that have demonstrated performance improvements are studied. Network analysis is combined with qualitative analysis of a commentary from primary interviews with stakeholders in these networks to identify characteristics that are observable from a network perspective and perceived as important by stakeholders active in these networks. Three network characteristics are identified in multiple cases as supporting improvements in local government performance. The first network characteristic is multiple information and skill ties between a local government and other local stakeholders including communities and operators. The second network characteristic is strong information and skill ties between a local government and higher levels of sector hierarchy. The third characteristic is coordination between stakeholders at higher levels of sector hierarchy that have strong information and skill ties with a local government. Strong information and skill ties between these support providers can help them to coordinate their efforts to collaboratively support local governments. These three characteristics can be used to analyse other stakeholder networks around local governments to identify where certain relationships that might support institutional development are missing.
11 Suhardiman, Diana; Mollinga, P. P. 2017. Institutionalized corruption in Indonesian irrigation: an analysis of the upeti system. Development Policy Review, 35(S2):0140-0159.
Corporate culture ; Public services ; Bureaucracy ; Irrigation systems ; Irrigation management ; Budgets ; Political aspects ; Economic aspects / Asia / Indonesia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048268)
This article analyzes the internal logic of the upeti system in Indonesian irrigation and brings to light how corruption rules are shaped through complex socio-political relationships reflected in the organizational culture of the irrigation agency. Based on 100 interviews with water sector professionals the article highlights: (1) the importance of social relations in shaping institutionalized corruption, (2) how the upeti system justifies corruption practices as the prevailing social norm, and (3) the need for structural change to eradicate corruption. Illustrating how corruption rules are embedded in project management procedures, with projects highly dependent on donor funding, the article highlights the importance of the issue for international agencies and the need to be more politically grounded in promoting their development agenda.
12 Asian Development Bank (ADB). 2018. Internet plus agriculture: a new engine for rural economic growth in the People’s Republic of China. Manila, Philippines: Asian Development Bank (ADB). 53p. [doi: https://doi.org/10.22617/TCS189559-2]
Agricultural development ; Information services ; Internet ; Rural economics ; Economic growth ; Electronic commerce ; Agricultural products ; Supply chain ; Development projects ; State intervention ; Policies ; Infrastructure ; Investment ; Constraints ; Corporate culture ; Farmers ; Agricultural extension ; Developing countries ; Public services ; Models / China / Gansu / Hubei / Shandong / Yunnan / Zhejiang
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049034)
https://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/publication/455091/internet-plus-agriculture-prc.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049034.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049034.pdf
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13 Hofstetter, Moritz; Bolding, A.; van Koppen, Barbara. 2020. Addressing failed water infrastructure delivery through increased accountability and end-user agency: the case of the Sekhukhune District, South Africa. Water Alternatives, 13(3):843-863.
Water supply ; Infrastructure ; Water policy ; Public services ; Rural areas ; Local government ; Project planning ; Financing ; Investment ; Community involvement ; Political aspects ; Accountability ; Patronage / South Africa / Sekhukhune / Ga-Moela
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049943)
http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol13/v13issue3/595-a13-3-13/file
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049943.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049943.pdf
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Despite progressive policies and a legal framework that includes the constitutional right to sufficient water, there are still enormous problems with water service delivery in low income rural South Africa. To understand the factors responsible for the observed discrepancy between ambitious policies and disappointing water service delivery, we undertook an analysis of the implementation of these policies in Sekhukhune District, South Africa; we scrutinised the public service water delivery in that district using an actor-oriented approach. We found that during the four phases of public water services delivery – identification, planning, construction and operation – practices often deviated from the stipulated policies; we also found that accountability relations between service delivery agencies and end users were undermined by gatekeeping and patronage. We argue that there is no need for major policy changes; we concluded from our research that by mobilising mechanisms that are based on existing policies, accountability relations can be strengthened and service delivery improved. We describe an experimental approach which focuses on budget transparency and end-user-driven development; it is an approach which aims at strengthening the agency of end users while limiting possibilities for rent-seeking and gatekeeping by councillors and contractors.
14 Abate, G. T.; Dereje, M.; Hirvonen, K.; Minten, B. 2020. Geography of public service delivery in rural Ethiopia. World Development, 136:105133. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105133]
Public services ; Extension programmes ; Agricultural extension ; Health services ; Rural areas ; Villages ; Household surveys ; Poverty ; Economic aspects ; Policies / Africa / Ethiopia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049965)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X20302606/pdfft?md5=52d0f3462221caaca9a6ff158dde8c00&pid=1-s2.0-S0305750X20302606-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049965.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049965.pdf
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Remote areas are often characterized by lower welfare outcomes due to economic disadvantages and higher transaction costs for trade. But their poorer situation may also be linked to worse public service delivery. Relying on large household surveys in rural Ethiopia, we explore this by assessing the association of two measures of remoteness – (1) the distance of service centers to district capitals and (2) the distance of households to service centers (the last mile) – with public service delivery in agriculture and health sectors. In the agriculture sector, we document statistically significant and economically meaningful associations between exposure to agriculture extension and the two measures of remoteness. For health extension, only the last mile matters. These differences between the two sectors could be due to the fact that more remote villages tend to have fewer agriculture extension workers who also put in fewer hours than their peers in more connected areas. This does not apply in the health sector. These findings provide valuable inputs for policymakers aiming to improve inclusiveness in poor rural areas.
15 Dhungana, H.; Clement, F.; Otto, B.; Das, B. 2021. Examining social accountability tools in the water sector: a case study from Nepal. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 29p. (IWMI Research Report 179) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2021.211]
Social participation ; Accountability ; Water supply ; Budgeting ; Auditing ; Corruption ; Transparency ; Governance ; Participatory approaches ; Citizen participation ; Water resources ; Drinking water ; Water allocation ; Water, sanitation and hygiene ; Development aid ; Stakeholders ; Nongovernmental organizations ; Water user associations ; Political institutions ; Institutional reform ; Public services ; Legislation ; Women ; Inclusion ; Households ; Awareness ; Rural communities ; Case studies / Nepal / Dailekh / Achham / Goganpani Village Development Committee / Mastabandali Village Development Committee / Sanakanda Scheme / Kalikhola Bandalimadu Scheme
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H050606)
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Enhancing accountability has become an important objective of the governance reforms over the past two decades. Yet, only a few studies have explored the use of social accountability tools in the water sector in particular. This report aims to fill this gap, based on a case study of a donor-funded water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) program in Nepal. We document and analyze the effects of two types of social accountability tools implemented by the program: public hearings and social audits. We examined how these tools have contributed to increased transparency, participation, voice and accountability, and in turn discuss their potential to reduce corruption. We relied on qualitative methods to collect data in two case study water supply schemes in two districts of Nepal. The study found that the social accountability tools provided a platform for water users to participate and deliberate on issues related to the execution of WASH schemes. However, the scope of accountability narrowly focused on the integrity of the water user committees but did not provide the political resources and means for communities to hold funding and implementing agencies accountable. Furthermore, attention to budget management has not provided space to address environmental and social justice issues related to payment of wages, access to water and decision-making processes in the design of the water scheme and water allocation. Findings from the study also indicate that the concept of deliberation and downward accountability, as envisioned in international development discourses, does not necessarily match with local power relationships and local cultural norms.
16 Kurian, M.; Kojima, Y. 2021. Boundary science: re-imagining water-energy-food interactions in the context of a data light approach to monitoring the environment- development nexus. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. 158p.
Water resources ; Energy ; Food security ; Nexus ; Monitoring and evaluation ; Environmental management ; Governance ; Environmental policies ; Decision making ; Institutions ; Non-governmental organizations ; Sustainable Development Goals ; Goal 6 Clean water and sanitation ; Wastewater management ; Water reuse ; Water supply ; Resilience ; Natural resources ; Soil erosion ; Open access ; Modelling ; Citizen science ; Social networks ; Public services
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy SF Record No: H050768)
17 Zenelabden, N.; Dikgang, J. 2022. Satisfaction with water services delivery in South Africa: the effects of social comparison. World Development, 156:105861. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.105861]
Water supply ; Comparisons ; Socioeconomic environment ; Household income ; Water quality ; Public services ; Drinking water ; Household surveys / South Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051134)
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This paper investigates the role of social comparisons in determining the satisfaction of South African households with municipal water service delivery. We use a unique balanced-panel dataset from 2015 to 2017 with national coverage, from Statistics South Africa General Household Surveys. Our results show that social comparison significantly affect household satisfaction with water service delivery. Moreover, we find evidence of both downward and upward comparison, with the latter having the strongest effect. Hence, we find indication of both altruism or risk sharing and information signalling between closer neighbours. We conclude that, since satisfaction with water service delivery seems to be strongly influenced by psychological and behavioural factors such as social comparison, satisfaction surveys serve a limited purpose as a foundation for public policy, because satisfaction is determined in part by factors that are unrelated to the actual service experienced by households. Our empirical evidence confirms this line of reasoning. The findings are robust for variety of reference groups.
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