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1 Hutchings, P.; Franceys, R.; Mekala, S.; Smits, S.; James, A. J. 2017. Revisiting the history, concepts and typologies of community management for rural drinking water supply in India. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 33(1):152-169. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2016.1145576]
Drinking water ; Water supply ; Community management ; Community involvement ; Rural communities ; Typology ; Water policy ; State intervention ; Development programmes ; Participatory approaches ; Models ; Manual pumps ; Pipes ; Villages / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047970)
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Community management has been widely criticized, yet it continues to play a significant role in rural drinking water supply. In India, as with other ‘emerging’ economies, the management model must now adapt to meet the policy demand for ever-increasing technical sophistication. Given this context, the paper reviews the history and concepts of community management to propose three typologies that better account for the changing role of the community and external support entities found in successful cases. It argues that external support entities must be prepared to take greater responsibility for providing ongoing support to communities for ensuring continuous service delivery.
2 Hutchings, P.; Parker, A.; Jeffrey, P. 2016. The political risks of technological determinism in rural water supply: a case study from Bihar, India. Journal of Rural Studies, 45:252-259. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2016.03.016]
Water supply ; Drinking water ; Political aspects ; Risk analysis ; Water policy ; Technology ; Manual pumps ; State intervention ; Institutions ; Nongovernmental organizations ; Social aspects ; Rural areas ; Case studies / India / Bihar / West Champaran
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048022)
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With the politics of the environment so fundamental to the development process in rural India, this paper analyses the relations between water discourses and drinking water technology. First, the national discourses of water are analysed using key policy and populist documents. Second, the paper presents ethnographic fieldwork studying the politics of drinking water in rural Bihar, where the relative merits of borehole handpumps and open wells are contested. The links between the national discourses and local contestation over appropriate technology are examined. The paper argues both policy and traditionalist perspectives are too technologically deterministic to adequately account for the myriad challenges of delivering rural water supply. The emphasis on technology, rather than service levels, creates the conditions in which capability traps emerge in terms of service provision. This is not only in terms of monitoring regimes but in the very practices of rural actors who use certain water supply technologies under an illusion of safety. With a focus on furthering the policy debate, the paper considers ways forward and suggests that a move from a binary understanding of access to a holistic measure of service levels will reduce the potential for political contestation and capability traps in rural water supply.
3 Hutchings, P.. 2018. Community management or coproduction? The role of state and citizens in rural water service delivery in India. Water Alternatives, 11(2):357-374.
Community management ; Water supply ; Rural areas ; Community involvement ; Citizen participation ; Collective action ; State intervention ; Corporate culture ; Financing ; Costs ; Case studies / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048803)
http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol11/v11issue2/441-a11-2-8/file
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H048803.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H048803.pdf
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This paper makes the case for a realignment in the discourse and conceptualisation of community management of rural water supply. It draws on data from 20 case studies of reportedly successful community management programmes from India to argue that current discourse is remiss not to describe the substantial role of the state and other supporting agencies in financing and supporting service provision. In the context of such substantial levels of support, conceptually, it is argued that the tendency to treat the challenge of rural water supply as one of either a community participation or collective action problem that only the community can address further limits current thinking in this area. Recasting the primary challenge of rural water service delivery as improved cooperation and coordination between state and citizen, the paper proposes a more substantial focus on coproduction as a route to overcome sustainability problems in rural water supply. The paper ends by reflecting on the generalisability of this thinking noting the specific context of the Indian empirical data. It concludes by arguing that, although certain aspects of the study are specific to that empirical domain, the normative and conceptual reasons for shifting the discourse remain applicable in broader contexts.
4 Whitley, L.; Hutchings, P.; Cooper, S.; Parker, A.; Kebede, A.; Joseph, S.; Butterworth, J.; van Koppen, Barbara; Mulejaa, A. 2019. A framework for targeting water, sanitation and hygiene interventions in pastoralist populations in the Afar Region of Ethiopia. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, 222(8):1133-1144. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheh.2019.08.001]
Water supply ; Sanitation ; Hygiene ; Risk assessment ; Pastoralists ; Communities ; Public health ; Health hazards ; Faecal pollution ; Pathogens ; Drinking water ; Water purification ; Water storage ; Human behaviour ; Villages ; Households / Ethiopia / Afar Region
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049505)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1438463919303037/pdfft?md5=20dd20d81fedd15412ad38ce2a911509&pid=1-s2.0-S1438463919303037-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049505.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049505.pdf
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Globally, many populations face structural and environmental barriers to access safe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services. Among these populations are many of the 200 million pastoralists whose livelihood patterns and extreme environmental settings challenge conventional WASH programming approaches. In this paper, we studied the Afar pastoralists in Ethiopia to identify WASH interventions that can mostly alleviate public health risks, within the population's structural and environmental living constraints. Surveys were carried out with 148 individuals and observational assessments made in 12 households as part of a Pastoralist Community WASH Risk Assessment. The results show that low levels of access to infrastructure are further compounded by risky behaviours related to water containment, storage and transportation. Additional behavioural risk factors were identified related to sanitation, hygiene and animal husbandry. The Pastoralist Community WASH Risk Assessment visually interprets the seriousness of the risks against the difficulty of addressing the problem. The assessment recommends interventions on household behaviours, environmental cleanliness, water storage, treatment and hand hygiene via small-scale educational interventions. The framework provides an approach for assessing risks in other marginal populations that are poorly understood and served through conventional approaches.
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