Community–Government Partnership for Metered Clean Drinking Water: A Case Study of Bhalwal, Pakistan

Iftikhar, Muhammad Naveed; Ali, Shujat; Sarzynski, Andrea

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“…Today's complex urban governance challenges require innovative solutions, including collective action by stakeholders. Instead of considering water only as a traditional market good, it should be taken as a collective resource for communities (Iftikhar et al, 2017). In this context, the self-governance and polycentric framework for the management of Common Pool Resources (CPR) is highly relevant (Ostrom and Gardner 1993).…”

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“…A blended entrepreneurial model of public and community partnerships may allow for more community involvement. One such model for water distribution, which has documented success and expansion is Bhalwal's Changa Pani (clean water) Program (CPP) in District Sargodha in Punjab (Iftikhar et al, 2017). The CPP has also inspired the overall objectives and approach of this study.…”

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Governance and Civic Capacity for the Provision of Drinking Water in Urban Sindh, Pakistan

Ahmad,

Naveed Iftikhar,

Shakeel

et al. 2021

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The purpose of this study is to analyse governance and civic capacity for service delivery in the drinking water sector in urban Sindh, Pakistan. The research was designed to systematically analyse the patterns of success and failure of drinking water initiatives in Hyderabad and Sukkur using qualitative methodology with Focus Group Discussion and interviews to understand the roles of collective action, partnerships, local experiences and cooperation alongside governmental and regulatory oversight related to drinking water. It highlights incentives for different actors involved in infrastructure development and maintenance, pricing and regulation. Case studies of collective action in the drinking water sector across Sindh have also been discussed. The main findings of the study are that piped drinking water quality remains poor in emerging cities like Hyderabad and Sukkur and citizen participation in water governance is very limited due to the obstructionist attitudes of local water management bureaucracy. Participatory approaches in governance can be used to harness action from the community in designing, planning and overseeing water service delivery. When used effectively, such models can help inform policymakers, improve knowledge about existing infrastructure, enhance access to information and reduce corruption.

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Governance and Civic Capacity for the Provision of Drinking Water in Urban Sindh, Pakistan

Ahmad,

Naveed Iftikhar,

Shakeel

et al. 2021

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“…The citybased urbanization is a product of planned LULC modifications in natural landscapes, while, the in-situ urbanization are the gradual transformations of rural settlements into urban areas. It was during such conversions that the semi-planned or quasi-planned urban settlements evolved (Zhu et al 2007;Iftikhar et al 2018;Zhu 2002). The concomitant initiatives for developments in such quasiplanned (semi-planned) contextual settings blur the distinction between the urban and rural settlements (Zhu 2004;SUN et al 2010).…”

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The Dynamics Of Urbanizations And Concomitant Land Use Land Cover Transformations In Planned And Quasi-Planned Urban Settlements Of Pakistan

Zaman

Saqib

Bokhari

et al. 2020

GES

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An attempt has been made to compare the salient characteristics of LULC transformations in planned (Faisalabad) and quasi-planned (Jhang) urban settlements of Pakistan. The Landsat-5 TM, Landsat 7 EMT+ and Landsat-8 images of 1989, 1999, 2009 and 2019, respectively, were retrieved and processed through google earth engine. The dynamics of LULC critically analyzed for the three periods 1989–1999, 1999–2009 and 2009–2019. The LULC analyzed in terms of quantity of change, gains, losses, and persistence of the study area examined carefully. The study mainly focuses on the LULC transformations of the previous 30 years (1989–2019). These 30 years witnessed massive physical expansions and LULC convergences. During this time interval, the built-up areas in these cities expanded, and productive agricultural land substantially squeezed. The spatialtemporal analysis of LULC changes calls for improvised strategies for the resilience of land and environmental resources. The direct beneficiaries of this research are resource managers and regional planners as well as others scientific community.

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Justice through polycentricity? A critical examination of climate justice framings in Pakistani climate policymaking

Shawoo

McDermott

2020

Climate Policy

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the extent to which the existence of a polycentric climate governance regime in Pakistan has enabled diverse framings of climate justice to emerge and be operationalised within policymaking. A twopart analysis is conducted through systematic coding and textual analysis of interview transcripts and policy documents. Firstly, an analysis based on climate justice framings reveals that, whilst national governmental actors predominantly adopt an international framing of climate justice, non-state actors have increasingly adopted vulnerability, human rights and transformational framings of justice, thereby supporting the theory that polycentricity is widening the space for voicing diverse framings. Secondly, a polycentric governance-based analysis reveals that several institutional barriers limit the ability of non-state actors to operationalise these framings, particularly capacity and resource constraints, limits of scale and scope, changing legislation and the unequivocal power held by the state. Hence, Pakistan's overarching climate change strategy prioritises justice between countries, while obscuring domestic inequalities, poverty and vulnerability, which are only addressed by non-state actors through isolated activities rather than in a coordinated manner within national policy. This finding suggests that polycentric governance can diversify climate discourse, but also that the intergovernmental climate regime may reinforce the nation state's international framings of justice at the expense of domestic justice concerns.

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Community–Government Partnership for Metered Clean Drinking Water: A Case Study of Bhalwal, Pakistan

Cited by 3 publications

References 19 publications

Governance and Civic Capacity for the Provision of Drinking Water in Urban Sindh, Pakistan

Governance and Civic Capacity for the Provision of Drinking Water in Urban Sindh, Pakistan

The Dynamics Of Urbanizations And Concomitant Land Use Land Cover Transformations In Planned And Quasi-Planned Urban Settlements Of Pakistan

Justice through polycentricity? A critical examination of climate justice framings in Pakistani climate policymaking

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