Water and Development: Good Governance after Neoliberalism

Front Cover......Page 1
About CROP......Page 2
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright ......Page 5
Contents ......Page 6
Figures and Tables ......Page 8
Acknowledgements ......Page 10
Abbreviations and Acronyms ......Page 11
Part One: Context......Page 14
 Introduction ......Page 16
  Reference ......Page 23
 1: Water, Development and Good Governance......Page 24
  Introduction ......Page 25
  Developmentalism ......Page 26
  Market Miracles ......Page 30
  Soft Solutions ......Page 34
  Ways Forward ......Page 38
  References ......Page 41
  Introduction ......Page 43
  Current Debates: Examining the Fault-Lines and Beyond......Page 45
  Addressing Sustainability in Dynamic Water Systems ......Page 53
  Meeting Governance Challenges in Water ......Page 61
  Designing Appraisal of Water Systems and Services ......Page 64
  Conclusions: Ways Forward for Research and Practice ......Page 66
  References ......Page 68
  Introduction ......Page 73
  Somewhere Between the ‘Is’ and the ‘Ought’......Page 75
  The African State Form ......Page 79
  Signs of ‘The Ought’......Page 82
  (i) States as Beneficiaries ......Page 83
  (ii) Pressure from Below ......Page 88
  (iii) ‘Peer Pressure’......Page 89
  (v) Out of Sight, Out of Mind ......Page 91
  References ......Page 93
  Introduction ......Page 97
  Different Meanings of the IWRM-Based Water Sector Reform......Page 105
  Overlaying Decentralized Institutions of Water Management ......Page 107
  Parallel Processes of Decentralization ......Page 111
  Multiple Decentralizations ......Page 112
  Lack of Knowledge Among Representatives of New Water Users ......Page 113
  References ......Page 115
Part Two: Case Study......Page 118
  Introduction ......Page 120
  Uganda’s Rural Water Supply Sector in a Historical Perspective ......Page 121
  Access to Safe Water in Sub-Saharan Africa and the National Picture in Uganda......Page 123
  Social-Spatial Disparities in a Rural Parish of Lwengo District......Page 125
  Socio-Demographic Profile of Households......Page 126
  Household Composition and Leadership ......Page 127
  Household Poverty ......Page 128
  Household Access to Water ......Page 130
  Health ......Page 140
  Water Usage in the Home ......Page 141
  Knowledge and Perceptions About Safe Water Service Delivery ......Page 143
  Conclusion ......Page 145
  References ......Page 146
  Introduction ......Page 148
  Access to Safe Water and the Governance Challenge ......Page 149
  Defining Water Governance ......Page 150
  Actors, Roles and Responsibilities in Uganda’s Institutional Framework for Rural Water Supply ......Page 152
  Conclusion ......Page 162
  References ......Page 163
  Women as Community Water Keepers ......Page 165
  Gender and Construction of Water Technologies ......Page 168
  Representation in Water User Committees ......Page 170
  Conducting Meetings ......Page 174
  Setting the Agenda ......Page 176
  Conclusion ......Page 181
  References ......Page 182
  Introduction ......Page 185
  Women, Water and Health ......Page 186
  Gender and Water – Evidence from Uganda ......Page 187
  Water and Health – A Sociocultural Perspective......Page 190
  Conclusion ......Page 191
  References ......Page 192
  Introduction ......Page 194
  The Research Approach ......Page 195
  Agro-Pastoralists’ Adaptive Capacities and their Importance in the Wider Community......Page 198
  Interaction Between Adaptive Capacity and the Process of Land Enclosure ......Page 204
  Conflicts with Other Resource Users ......Page 206
  Conclusion ......Page 208
  References ......Page 209
  Introduction ......Page 211
  Methodology ......Page 214
  Results and Discussion ......Page 216
  References ......Page 221
Part Three: Balance Sheet......Page 224
  Introduction ......Page 226
  The Main Issues ......Page 227
  Strategy in Water and Sanitation Delivery ......Page 228
  Trends in Deprivation: Africa vs Southern Asia ......Page 233
  Trends in Access in Africa ......Page 235
  Relative and Absolute Deprivation ......Page 239
  Six Findings ......Page 240
  The Politics of Delivery ......Page 241
  Bottom-Up Perspectives......Page 243
  Sustainability: Climate Change and Responses ......Page 249
  Post-2015 Options ......Page 250
  Conclusion ......Page 254
  Notes ......Page 256
  References ......Page 257
Notes on Contributors ......Page 259
Index ......Page 264
Back Cover......Page 273