Journal ArticleDOI
Participants or customers in water governance? Community-public partnerships for peri-urban water supply
Ellis Adjei Adams,Leo C. Zulu +1 more
TLDR
In this article, the authors examine the performance of water user associations and the role of actors, power relations, socio-institutional dynamics, and context in supplying water to poor urban and peri-urban neighborhoods of Malawi's two major cities.About:
This article is published in Geoforum.The article was published on 2015-10-01. It has received 64 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Water supply & Natural resource management.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Urban growth and water access in sub-Saharan Africa: Progress, challenges, and emerging research directions
S. Dos Santos,Ellis Adjei Adams,G. Neville,Yoshihide Wada,A. de Sherbinin,E. Mullin Bernhardt,Susana B. Adamo +6 more
TL;DR: This paper contributes to interdisciplinary understanding of urban water supply by distilling and integrating relevant empirical knowledge on urban dynamics and water issues in SSA, and points out future research directions including the need to understand how alternatives to centralized water policies may help deliver sustainable water supply to cities and informal settlements in the region.
Journal ArticleDOI
Thirsty slums in African cities: household water insecurity in urban informal settlements of Lilongwe, Malawi
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined household water insecurity in three urban informal settlements of Lilongwe, Malawi's capital and largest city and found that water insecurity arises from overdependence on communal water kiosks which are insufficient in number, have high nonfunctional rates, are prone to vandalism, and provide water irregularly.
Journal ArticleDOI
Urban water supply in Sub-Saharan Africa: historical and emerging policies and institutional arrangements
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors synthesize the literature on historical and emerging institutional arrangements for urban water supply in Sub-Saharan Africa to highlight successes, drawbacks, and opportunities for improving future water access.
Journal ArticleDOI
‘Spaces of Exclusion’ in community water governance: A Feminist Political Ecology of gender and participation in Malawi’s Urban Water User Associations
TL;DR: In this paper, gender dynamics and power relations underpinning participation, decision-making processes, and employment and benefit sharing arrangements among Water User Associations (WUAs) in the urban informal settlements of Lilongwe, Malawi were examined.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Enabling Environment for Participation in Water and Sanitation: A Conceptual Framework
Alejandro Jiménez,Hélène LeDeunff,Ricard Gine,Johanna Sjödin,Ryan Cronk,Sofia Murad,Marina Takane,Jamie Bartram +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore elements from the theory and practice of participation applied to the management of water resources and water and sanitation services and propose a framework that interrelates and integrates both contextual factors and procedural elements of participation.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
The Tragedy of the Commons
TL;DR: The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.
Book
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
TL;DR: In this paper, an institutional approach to the study of self-organization and self-governance in CPR situations is presented, along with a framework for analysis of selforganizing and selfgoverning CPRs.
Journal ArticleDOI
A Ladder of Citizen Participation
TL;DR: Beskriver ulike grader av brukermedvirkning, og regnes som en klassiker innenfor temaet Brukermedveirkning og psykisk helsearbeid as discussed by the authors.
Book
Participation: the New Tyranny?
Bill Cooke,Uma Kothari +1 more
TL;DR: The case for participation as Tyranny as mentioned in this paper was made by Bill Cooke and Uma Kothari, who argued that people's knowledge, participation and Patronage were operations and representation in rural development.