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From systems to service: scaling up community management
conference contribution
posted on 2018-02-12, 15:09 authored by Eveline Bolt, Ton Schouten, Patrick MoriartyCommunity management of water supplies can be
described as a situation whereby water users take responsibility
for the sustainable management of their water
supplies. They feel and are, formally, responsible for sustaining
or even improving the water supply service level.
Over the last eight years IRC and partners (in Nepal,
Pakistan, Cameroon, Kenya, Guatemala and Colombia)
have been involved in a process of action research into and
dissemination of results from experiences into community
management of water supply systems. This paper draws on
one of the major conclusions of this process: that to be
efficient in meeting the challenge of large scale replication
of community management there is a need for community
management to become ‘institutionalised’ within the ‘intermediate’
levels of government and society. The necessary
effective decentralised support structures and mechanisms,
needed to make community management work, are not yet
in place. This has already caused the failure and malfunctioning
of many systems and puts the sustainability of many
more at stake. Subsequently the paper looks at the implications
of this statement and at the way forward.
History
School
- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Research Unit
- Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)
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WEDC ConferenceCitation
BOLT, E. ... et al, 2001. From systems to service: scaling up community management. IN: Scott, R. (ed). People and systems for water, sanitation and health: Proceedings of the 27th WEDC International Conference, Lusaka, Zambia, 20-24 August 2001, pp. 278-280.Publisher
© WEDC, Loughborough UniversityVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
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2001Notes
This is a conference paper.Other identifier
WEDC_ID:12732Language
- en
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