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1 Wallace, T.. 1981. The Kano River Project, Nigeria: The impact of an irrigation scheme on productivity and welfare. In J. Heyer, P. Roberts and G. Williams, Rural development in tropical Africa (pp. 281-305). New York, NY, USA: St Martins' Press.
Irrigation programs ; Primary level irrigation ; Development plans ; Resource management ; Rural development ; River basin development
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 307.72 G100 HEY Record No: H01785)
2 Wallace, T.. 1980. Agricultural bonanza? Some crucial issues raised by the World Bank Agricultural Development Projects in Nigeria. Nigerian Journal of Public Affairs, 9:61-78.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 3112 Record No: H09722)
3 Wallace, T.. 1980. Agricultural projects and land in northern Nigeria. Review of African Political Economy, 17:59-70.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 3113 Record No: H09723)
4 Joshi, Deepa; Haque, S.; Nahar, K.; Tania, S.; Singh, J.; Wallace, T.. 2022. Public lives, private water: female ready-made garment factory workers in peri-urban Bangladesh. In Narain, V.; Roth, D. (Eds.). Water security, conflict and cooperation in peri-urban South Asia: flows across boundaries. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. pp.67-88. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79035-6_4]
Water supply ; Gender equality ; Women ; Factory workers ; Empowerment ; Water, sanitation and hygiene ; Social aspects ; Households ; Domestic water ; Poverty ; Periurban areas / Bangladesh / Dhaka / Gazipur / Bhadam
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050845)
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In Dhaka city and its fringe peri-urban sprawls water for domestic use is an increasingly contested commodity. The location of our research, Gazipur district, bordering the growing city of Dhaka, is the heartland of Bangladesh’s Ready Made Garments (RMG) industry, which has spread unplanned in former wetlands and agrarian belts. However, unlike Dhaka, the almost fully industrialized peri-urban areas bordering the city, like many other such areas globally, function in an institutional vacuum. There are no formal institutional arrangements for water supply or sanitation. In the absence of regulations for mining groundwater for industrial use and weakly enforced norms for effluent discharge, the expansion of the RMG industry and other industries has had a disproportionate environmental impact. In this complex and challenging context, we apply a political economy lens to draw attention to the paradoxical situation of the increasingly “public” lives of poor Bangladeshi women working in large numbers in the RMG industry in situations of increasingly “private” and appropriated water sources in this institutionally liminal peri-urban space. Our findings show that poorly paid work for women in Bangladesh’s RMG industry does not translate to women’s empowerment because, among others, a persisting masculinity and the lack of reliable, appropriate and affordable WASH services make women’s domestic water work responsibilities obligatory and onerous.
5 Rajouria, A.; Wallace, T.; Joshi, Deepa; Raut, M. 2022. Functionality of rural community water supply systems and collective action: a case of Guras Rural Municipality, Karnali Province. Nepal Public Policy Review, 2:317-338. [doi: https://doi.org/10.3126/nppr.v2i1.48684]
Water supply ; Collective action ; Rural communities ; Water resources ; Water management ; Water user groups ; Gender ; Social inclusion ; Women ; Water, sanitation and hygiene ; Drinking water ; Socioeconomic aspects ; Policies / Nepal / Karnali / Dailekh / Guras Rural Municipality
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051437)
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Ensuring the long-term functionality of community-managed rural water supply systems has been a persistent development challenge. It is well established that the technicalities of keeping the systems going are impacted by complex political, social, financial, and institutional challenges. While the shift to federal, three-tiered governance allocates concurrent responsibility for drinking water management to the local government with federal and provincial governments, water and sanitation user groups continue to shoulder the management of local supply systems voluntarily. All three levels have jurisdiction over water-related services resulting in confusion of roles. This study focuses on the local level, where community management of water and sanitation decentralisation is the key approach in this complex tangle of diverse institutions with different actors managing and governing water. User Groups and their Committees in the Guras Rural Municipality of Dailekh district, Karnali province, in West Nepal, provided the case study, which was analysed using Ostrom's well-recognised Eight Principles for Sustainable Governance of Common-Pool Resources. The community-based model, established formally through the Water Resource Act 1992 (2049 BS), is critically analysed in light of the changing socioeconomic context through the intervening years. The results highlight the need for stronger collaboration between the rural municipality and users to achieve good water supplies and the risks of losing access and voice in water management for women and marginalised people when inactive user groups are replaced by private or group interests taking control of the water access.
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