Rural water service delivery: addressing the hidden development crisis

Q4 Environmental Science

Waterlines Pub Date : 2020-07-01 DOI:10.3362/1756-3488.19-00004

A. Harvey, J. Mukanga

{"title":"Rural water service delivery: addressing the hidden development crisis","authors":"A. Harvey, J. Mukanga","doi":"10.3362/1756-3488.19-00004","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses a financial and institutional solution to the ongoing crisis of poor functionality of rural water sources in less-developed countries in Africa and elsewhere. It describes the outcomes of a learning journey undertaken since 2011 by Whave Solutions, a Ugandan rural water maintenance provider and advocacy body operating in several hundred rural communities working in close partnership with communities, local governments, and the Ministry of Water and Environment. The paper describes the root causes of failed rural water delivery, and describes how these have been addressed through collective action on the ground. The aim is to fulfil Uganda’s national development goals and Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6.1, building a comprehensive system for rural water functionality. This paper presents evidence of the cost of full functionality assurance, and discusses which tariff modalities and institutional structures are best suited for stable and sustained reliable water supply in future years nationwide. Weak regulation and weak governance are found to be among the barriers preventing these modalities and structures from being established. However, the dominant constraint to progress is found to be the failure of the aid sector to recognize its contribution to weak governance and its failure to take coordinated action to correct this. The paper concludes with specific recommendations for investors in water infrastructure, donors, and aid practitioners.","PeriodicalId":39265,"journal":{"name":"Waterlines","volume":"39 1","pages":"180-218"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Waterlines","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3362/1756-3488.19-00004","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Environmental Science","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

Abstract

This paper discusses a financial and institutional solution to the ongoing crisis of poor functionality of rural water sources in less-developed countries in Africa and elsewhere. It describes the outcomes of a learning journey undertaken since 2011 by Whave Solutions, a Ugandan rural water maintenance provider and advocacy body operating in several hundred rural communities working in close partnership with communities, local governments, and the Ministry of Water and Environment. The paper describes the root causes of failed rural water delivery, and describes how these have been addressed through collective action on the ground. The aim is to fulfil Uganda’s national development goals and Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6.1, building a comprehensive system for rural water functionality. This paper presents evidence of the cost of full functionality assurance, and discusses which tariff modalities and institutional structures are best suited for stable and sustained reliable water supply in future years nationwide. Weak regulation and weak governance are found to be among the barriers preventing these modalities and structures from being established. However, the dominant constraint to progress is found to be the failure of the aid sector to recognize its contribution to weak governance and its failure to take coordinated action to correct this. The paper concludes with specific recommendations for investors in water infrastructure, donors, and aid practitioners.

查看原文本刊更多论文

农村供水服务的提供：解决隐藏的发展危机

本文讨论了解决非洲和其他地区欠发达国家农村水源功能不佳危机的财政和制度解决方案。报告介绍了Whave Solutions自2011年以来开展的一项学习之旅的成果。Whave Solutions是乌干达农村水维护供应商和倡导机构，与社区、地方政府和水与环境部密切合作，在数百个农村社区开展业务。这篇论文描述了农村供水失败的根本原因，并描述了如何通过实地集体行动来解决这些问题。其目的是实现乌干达的国家发展目标和可持续发展目标(SDG) 6.1，建立一个全面的农村水功能系统。本文提供了充分功能保证成本的证据，并讨论了在未来几年，哪种收费模式和体制结构最适合于全国范围内稳定和持续可靠的供水。监管不力和治理不力是阻碍这些模式和结构建立的障碍之一。然而，进展的主要制约因素是援助部门未能认识到其对治理薄弱的贡献，也未能采取协调一致的行动来纠正这一问题。报告最后对水利基础设施投资者、捐助者和援助从业人员提出了具体建议。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Waterlines Environmental Science-Water Science and Technology

CiteScore

1.20

自引率

0.00%

发文量

期刊介绍： Published since 1982 Waterlines is a refereed journal providing a forum for those involved in extending water supply, sanitation, hygiene and waste management to all in developing countries. Waterlines aims to bridge the gap between research and practice: it encourages papers written by researchers for the benefit of practice and those written by practitioners to inform research and policy. It highlights information sources and promotes debate between different perspectives. Waterlines considers the key challenges facing those in the water and sanitation sector–engineers, health professionals.