An assessment of self-help water supply in Akure, Nigeria

Fakere, Alexander Adeyemi; Folorunso, Clement Oluwole; Omole, F.K; Ayoola, Hezekiah Adedayo; Arayela, Olatunde

doi:10.1016/j.jup.2018.03.004

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“…This study attempts to fill this gap in knowledge. As observed by Fakere et al (2020b), Akure is one of the cities that has a widespread infrastructure deficit and it is important to understand how communities in the city are dealing with this malaise. Thus, this study examines self-help infrastructure provision, maintenance and users' preferences in selected residential neighbourhoods of Akure.…”

Section: International Journal Of Community Development and Managemen...mentioning

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Self-Help Provision and Maintenance of Housing Infrastructure in Akure, Nigeria

2024

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Aim/Purpose: This study examined self-help provision and maintenance of infrastructure in two communities in Akure, to identify the current modes and nature of infrastructure development in those communities. Background: Community participation is the involvement of people in community projects to solve their own problems. In developing countries like Nigeria, communities have resorted to self-help efforts to provide and maintain the infrastructural facilities in their neighbourhoods due to government neglect. This has negative effects on the state of the infrastructure due to meagre resources and technical know-how. Methodology: A cross-sectional survey of 198 households was conducted in the study area. Data were collected through questionnaire survey and physical observations while the data was subjected to Single-Factor Descriptive Analysis. Findings: Findings reveal poor state of infrastructure, pervasive self-help provision and maintenance of infrastructure in the study areas and that the conditions in the two communities are similar. Impact on Society: The study recommended that the authorities responsible for infrastructure provision and maintenance in the study area should live up to their responsibilities, while ensuring that the community members are involved in this process.

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Section: International Journal Of Community Development and Managemen...mentioning

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Self-Help Provision and Maintenance of Housing Infrastructure in Akure, Nigeria

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“…This way, constant supply of water can be guaranteed subject to availability of constant power for pumping. Studies have reported a high rate of dependence on self-help water supply in many developing countries owing to the collapse of municipal water supply schemes [13,14]. This reality that exists in the larger society is clearly propagated back to the schools.…”

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An exploratory investigation into the status of water, sanitation and hygiene (wash) of schools in Enugu State, Nigeria

Nnaji

2023

Nig. J. Tech.

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The status of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facilities was investigated in sixty schools in seven local government areas of Enugu State, Nigeria. A total of sixty schools comprising of twenty-four (24) private schools, twenty (20) government schools and Sixteen (16) mission schools were investigated in this study. Using questionnaire and on-the-spot assessment, WASH facilities in the selected schools were subjected to in-depth scrutiny. The highest number of schools that do not have a water source within the school premises are government schools (10), followed by private schools (7) and then mission schools (2). About seventy-one percent (71%) of the schools investigated rely on self-help water supply sources such as water vendors, rainwater harvesting and private boreholes. Fifty-seven (57) or 95% of the sixty (60) schools of all the schools have toilet facilities ranging from improved pit latrine (10%), flush toilet (31.7%) and pour flush toilet (53.3%). With respect to toilet cleaning, 33%, 17% and 50% of private, government and mission school clean their toilets every day. Fifty-five percent (55%) of all schools always provide handwashing facilities while 13.3% never provide handwashing facilities. Based on school category, the distribution of schools that provide handwashing facilities are as follows: private schools – 54.2%, government schools – 40% and mission schools – 75%. There was a significant correlation (r = 0.85) between availability of toilet facilities and provision of handwashing facilities. There was also a significant correlation (r = 0.555) between the provision of handwashing facilities and the provision of soap.

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“…In recent times, urban infrastructural studies more or less revolve around heterogeneous infrastructure, everyday practices and everyday governance debates (Velzeboer et al 2017;Truelove 2019;Hackenbroch and Hossain 2012;Neves Alves 2019;Cornea et al 2016). These studies reveal how urban citizens engage in self-initiatives both by providing and accessing water services in a truncated infrastructural landscape (Peloso and Morinville 2014; Uwayezu and de Vries 2020; Fakere et al 2018;Ledo Espinoza 2020;Allen et al 2017;Hofmann 2020;Dakyaga et al 2020; Uitermark and Tieleman 2021). Anand highlights how citizens control, maintain and manage city water on an everyday basis even within the large-scale water network (Anand 2017).…”

Section: Post-settlement Water Network Planning In Urban Sub-saharan ...mentioning

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Translating Globalised Ideals into Local Settings: The Actors and Complexities of Post-settlement Water Infrastructure Planning in Urban Ghana

Dakyaga

2022

The Urban Book Series

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Following the principles of the networked city and urban planning, pro-active planning of water infrastructure is pertinent for attaining universal water access. Ironically, in cities of the Global South, water infrastructure provision takes the form of post-settlement networks—where human settlements evolve to steer the provision of the large-scale water network. However, little is known about the complexities, the processes and motives, the actors involved and how they navigate towards universalising water access. I investigate this kind of infrastructure planning ideal, drawing inspiration from technological translations from the Global North to the Global South, using the case of Wa, a secondary city of Ghana. The study revealed that off-grid water systems initially served water in secondary cities. The large-scale water network later evolved as a “reactive measure” driven by the rise in population, and the failure of the off-grid water infrastructure to attain universal water access. Despite that, resistance from residents, spatial disorder and sprawling growth, utility policies and in capabilities challenged the efforts of the state utility towards attaining a universal water supply. Through creativity, the utility providers negotiated and invented multiple models of water supply contradictory to the “mono-modal” principles of the networked city. This produced and segregated water access across the urban zones of the city. The findings suggest that though the post-settlement water network provision represents an attempted translation of the networked city ideal, in practice, it does not conform with the hegemonic premise of a networked city to foster universal water supply in the cities of the Global South.

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An assessment of self-help water supply in Akure, Nigeria

Cited by 10 publications

References 6 publications

Self-Help Provision and Maintenance of Housing Infrastructure in Akure, Nigeria

Self-Help Provision and Maintenance of Housing Infrastructure in Akure, Nigeria

An exploratory investigation into the status of water, sanitation and hygiene (wash) of schools in Enugu State, Nigeria

Translating Globalised Ideals into Local Settings: The Actors and Complexities of Post-settlement Water Infrastructure Planning in Urban Ghana

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