How does community-managed infrastructure scale up from rural to urban? An example of co-production in community water projects in Northern Pakistan

IF 2 2区经济学 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environment and Urbanization Pub Date : 2021-09-14 DOI:10.1177/09562478211034853

Matt Birkinshaw, A. Grieser, Jeff Tan

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Abstract

This paper examines the role of participation, co-production and community management in a random sample of 50 rural and urban water systems under the Water and Sanitation Extension Programme (WASEP) in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. It looks at the role of an NGO (the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat) in co-production, and how this model of community-based water management (CBWM) contributes to the discussion in the literature. Specifically, the paper considers whether the largely rural WASEP model can be successfully scaled up and scaled out to urban centres, drawing on evidence from a survey of over 2,500 rural and urban households. The findings illustrate the importance of participation in the successful delivery of water systems. However, higher levels of rural participation are related to specifically rural features, including the smaller size and more limited diversity of communities. The paper concludes that new methods may be required for the transfer of CBWM to urban centres with much larger, more diverse and growing populations.

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社区管理的基础设施如何从农村扩展到城市?巴基斯坦北部社区水项目合作生产的一个例子

本文在巴基斯坦吉尔吉特-巴尔蒂斯坦的供水和卫生推广计划（WASEP）下，对50个农村和城市供水系统的随机样本进行了参与、共同生产和社区管理的作用研究。它着眼于非政府组织（阿加汗人居署）在合作生产中的作用，以及这种基于社区的水管理模式如何促进文献中的讨论。具体而言，该论文根据对2500多个农村和城市家庭的调查证据，考虑了以农村为主的WASEP模式是否可以成功地扩大并推广到城市中心。这些发现说明了参与供水系统成功交付的重要性。然而，农村参与程度较高与特定的农村特征有关，包括社区规模较小和多样性更有限。该论文的结论是，可能需要新的方法将CBWM转移到人口更大、更多样化和不断增长的城市中心。

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