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1 Jensen, J. R.; Seth, S. L.; Sawhney, T.; Kumar, P. (Eds.) 1996. Watershed development: Emerging issues and framework for action plan for strengthening a learning process at all levels. Proceedings of Danida's First International Workshop on Watershed Development, held at Hubli and Bangalore, Karnataka State, India, from 2-10 December 1995. New Delhi, India: Danida's Watershed Development Programme. Watershed Development Coordination Unit. xxxxii, 570p. (WDCU publication no.1)
Watershed management ; Water resources development ; Development aid ; Development projects ; Agricultural policy ; Agroforestry ; Land use ; Soil conservation ; Water conservation ; Social participation / Denmark / India / Nepal / Tanzania / Ghana / Kenya / Ethiopia / Orissa / Karnataka / Tirunelveli / Tamil Nadu / Kitui / Eritrea
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 JEN Record No: H021707)
2 Nissen-Petersen, E. 1989. Water from sand. In Kerr, C. (Ed.), Community water development. London, UK: IT Publications. pp.98-102.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 628.1 G000 KER Record No: H027548)
3 Pagiola, S. 1996. Price policy and returns to soil conservation in Semi-Arid Kenya. Environmental and Resource Economics, 8:255-271.
Soil conservation ; Price policy ; Soil degradation ; Public policy ; Environmental effects ; Farmers ; Developing countries / Kenya / Kitui / Machakos
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 6917 Record No: H035104)
4 Hoque, S. F.; Hope, R. 2018. The water diary method - proof-of-concept and policy implications for monitoring water use behaviour in rural Kenya. Water Policy, 20(4):725-743. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2018.179]
Water use ; Behaviour ; Monitoring ; Sustainable Development Goals ; Water security ; Water policy ; Water resources ; Drinking water ; Water costs ; Households ; Water supply ; Gender equality ; Rural areas / Kenya / Kitui
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048882)
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Africa is lagging behind global progress to meet the Sustainable Development Goal for ‘universal access to safe and affordable drinking water’ services. New knowledge needs to understand and respond to water service inequalities which are not revealed by high quality, but snapshot and infrequent, household surveys. We have designed and piloted a ‘water diary’ in Kenya to document the daily sources, uses, cost and sufficiency of water, along with weekly household expenditures. Water use behaviours vary across water supply alternatives, rainfall extremes and economic conditions to affect ‘sufficiency’ for competing drinking, bathing, laundry, hygiene, and productive uses. Findings reveal water for hygiene uses is reduced during drought, and while water expenditure is the lowest of seven categories, it spikes for a minority. We evaluate the diary method by measurement, internal and external validity criteria and conclude that the longitudinal approach offers complementary insights to address the gaps in current monitoring methods.
5 Bukachi, S. A.; Omia, D. O.; Musyoka, M. M.; Wambua, F. M.; Peter, M. N.; Korzenevica, M. 2021. Exploring water access in rural Kenya: narratives of social capital, gender inequalities and household water security in Kitui County. Water International, 46(5):677-696. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2021.1940715]
Water access ; Rural communities ; Social capital ; Gender equality ; Households ; Water security ; Water insecurity ; Resilience ; Women ; Sustainable development ; Risk / Kenya / Kitui
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050656)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02508060.2021.1940715?needAccess=true
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050656.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050656.pdf
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Access to water and sanitation as a basic human right is still limited within resource-poor rural settings of Africa, including Kitui, Kenya. This is exacerbated by prevailing gender inequalities which can be mediated when communities leverage on social capital. Qualitative methods were used to examine how values embedded in social capital enable women and vulnerable groups to cope with household water insecurity. How communities exploit the bonding and bridging dimensions of social capital to cope with water insecurities has gendered implications. Understanding the role of social capital is important in advancing public policy to reduce gender inequalities in water access.
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