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1 Hope, R. 2015. Is community water management the community’s choice?: implications for water and development policy in Africa. Water Policy, 17(4):664-678. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2014.170]
Water management ; Community management ; Water policy ; Drinking water ; Water supply ; Human rights ; Water rights ; Manual pumps ; Maintenance ; Water users ; User charges ; Rural communities ; Households ; Socioeconomic environment ; Financing ; Sustainability ; Poverty / Africa / Kenya / Kyuso / Ngomeni
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047430)
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The global drive for universal drinking water security has faltered in rural Africa. Community management of handpumps, which provide water to over 200 million rural people, is the prevailing but increasingly embattled policy choice. A choice experiment is designed to test alternative maintenance models across competing attributes of maintenance provider, maintenance level, payment mode, and payment level. A sample of 3,540 observations is modeled from 118 handpump users in rural Kenya. Results identify community management of maintenance services as the least preferred option with water user payments contingent on an order of magnitude improvement in handpump repair times. Social choice heterogeneity varies by socio-economic status and water use behaviors indicating uneven adoption profiles within communities compounded by no acceptable payment mode. Policy responses to community choices need to address these institutional challenges through new monitoring platforms and acceptable payment systems.
2 Koehler, J.; Thomson, P.; Hope, R. 2015. Pump-priming payments for sustainable water services in rural Africa. World Development, 74:397-411. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.05.020]
Water supply ; Water users ; Water security ; Water demand ; Drinking water ; Sustainability ; Manual pumps ; User charges ; Maintenance ; Models ; Consumer behaviour ; Rural areas ; Households ; Institution building / Africa / Kenya / Kyuso
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047714)
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https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047714.pdf
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Locally managed handpumps provide water services to around 200 million people in rural Africa. Handpump failures often result in extended service disruption leading to high but avoidable financial, health, and development costs. Using unique observational data from monitoring handpump usage in rural Kenya, we evaluate how dramatic improvements in maintenance services influence payment preferences across institutional, operational, and geographic factors. Public goods theory is applied to examine new institutional forms of handpump management. Results reveal steps to enhance rural water supply sustainability by pooling maintenance and financial risks at scale supported by advances in monitoring and payment technologies.
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