Hidden crisis project: studies of community water management in Malawi and Uganda 2017-2018 (NERC Grant NE/M008606/1)
In developing countries, the dominant model for managing rural water supplies is a community-level association or committee. Although a relative paucity of evidence exists to support this model, it continues to exert a strong pull on policy makers. This project examines everyday water governance arrangements, situating these in the exigencies of wider village life and over the course of changing seasons. The data highlights the social embeddedness of water governance, and challenges the dominant 'associational model' of community based management. In none of the 12 sites do we observe a fully formed committee functioning as it should according to policy. Instead, water management arrangements are typically comprised by one or a small number of key individuals from the community, who may or may not be part of a waterpoint committee.
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- English (en)
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- 2021-07-29
British Geological Survey
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British Geological Survey
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Enquiries
0115 936 3276
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South
,
EDINBURGH
,
LOTHIAN
,
EH14 4AP
,
United Kingdom
0115 936 3142
0115 936 3276
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- Social sciences
- Water resources
- Seasonal variation
- Water supply
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- NERC_DDC
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MALAWI [id=679000]
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- 1979
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MW
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- 2009
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MWI
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- 2009
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UG
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- 2009
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UGA
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2009
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UGANDA [id=689000]
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- 1979
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- 2017-06-01
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- 2018-06-01
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NVIVO file (.nvp)
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Report
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- 2011
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Report
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- 2010-12-08
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- See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
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- Statement
- Detailed longitudinal community studies were undertaken between 2017 and 2018 across 12 sites in Malawi and Uganda. This produced a detailed social science dataset of the arrangements communities have devised for managing their waterpoints.
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- English (en)
- Resource type
- nonGeographicDataset
- Hierarchy level name
- non geographic dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2023-12-05
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
British Geological Survey
The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South
,
EDINBURGH
,
LOTHIAN
,
EH14 4AP
,
United Kingdom
+44 131 667 1000