Linking resource users' perceptions and collective action in commons management – an examination of water supply systems in Southern Senegal

Hanatani, Atsushi; Fuse, Kana

doi:10.2166/wp.2011.031

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“…In the mid '90s the Senegalese government further enhanced the decentralization of the water management tasks by reinforcing the role of the WUAs and by fostering a greater private sector participation [76].…”

Section: Gender Issues Within the Local Wuasmentioning

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Water Gender Indicators in Agriculture: A Study of Horticultural Farmer Organizations in Senegal

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Water

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This paper intends to contribute to the debate on gender equality and water within the Sustainable Development Goals SDGs 5 and 6. Farmers organizations are often considered key stakeholders whose participation should be fostered to achieve a good water governance in agriculture and irrigation programs. Nonetheless, many water management interventions tackle participation as an instrumental and formal process. A common assumption is that granting sufficient space for women in water management will automatically ensure a greater gender empowerment. Nevertheless, often low importance is given to assessing who really actively participates and benefits from water development projects, favoring the technical aspects. This paper addresses the articulation between gender, water management and indicators, using male, female and mixed farmer organizations as touchstones in three regions of Senegal. The authors defines a system of water gender indicators grouped into five sections. The first results show more similarities between mixed and female organizations, while the main gender inequalities are visible in the water technique and economic domains. Thanks to this study, we can see how a gender-based analysis may allow to more deeply understand some more or less "hidden" water governance mechanisms and their related implications in terms of project management and policy making.

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Section: Gender Issues Within the Local Wuasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Water Gender Indicators in Agriculture: A Study of Horticultural Farmer Organizations in Senegal

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“…disciplines. Yet there has been limited empirical analysis linking CPR theory and rural waterpoint sustainability (Hanatani and Fuse, 2012;Naiga and Penker, 2014). Instead, the vast majority of CPR works relating to water management have focussed on irrigation systems which supply water for productive rather than domestic purposes (Araral, 2003;Ostrom, 1992;Meinzen-Dick, 2007).…”

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“…While national water service regulators regularly publish revenue collection metrics for urban piped schemes in sub-Saharan Africa (EWURA, 2013;NWASCO, 2013;WASREB, 2014), the measurement of financial indicators for rural waterpoint systems remains a major knowledge gap. Moreover, though there is an established body of literature examining determinants of willingness to pay for hypothetical water services in rural sub-Saharan Africa (World Bank Water Demand Research Team, 1993;Naiga and Penker, 2014), there have been few attempts to evaluate the conditions affecting actual payment behaviours (Hanatani and Fuse, 2012). This is of critical importance given evidence of a divergence between factors which influence a household's willingness to pay and those which determine their actual behaviours (Griffin, et al, 1995).…”

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A multi-decadal and social-ecological systems analysis of community waterpoint payment behaviours in rural Kenya

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2016

Journal of Rural Studies

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Community-based financing of rural water supply operation and maintenance is a well-established policy principle in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet evidence from over 90,000 waterpoints in five sub-Saharan African countries suggests a majority of communities fail to establish and sustain a revenue collection system. As a result, insufficient finances to repair waterpoints can lead to lengthy downtimes or abandonment, threatening the health and welfare of millions of water users forced to revert to unsafe or distant alternatives. Applying a social-ecological systems framework to community waterpoints in rural Kenya, we empirically assess the prevalence and determinants of financial contributions among water users. The analysis draws on multi-decadal data covering 227 years' worth of water committee financial records consisting of more than 53,000 household payments. Results reveal that non-payment and late payment are prevalent, and payment behaviours are predicted by groundwater quality, waterpoint location, productive water use, and rainfall season. The findings reflect the socio-ecological nature of waterpoint sustainability in rural sub-Saharan Africa and confirm that households are not always willing and able to pay for an improved water supply. This situation is symptomatic of a fundamental operation and maintenance financing challenge that must be addressed if the Sustainable Development Goal of universal access to safe water is to be achieved.

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“…Emerson, Nabatchi, and Balogh [22] define collaborative governance as "the processes and structures of public policy decision-making, and management that engage people constructively across the boundaries of public agencies, levels of government, and/or the public, private, and civic spheres to carry out a public purpose that could not otherwise be accomplished" (p.2). Several studies have also linked collaborative process to resource management outcomes, such as the irrigation service fees payments, operation and maintenance [23], collective action and managed ecosystems [24] and stakeholder conflicts, and community development projects [25]. If a collaborative dynamic is evaluated in the context of irrigation management in Ghana, the results may provide useful insights for decision-makers.…”

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Stakeholder collaboration and irrigation practices in Ghana: issues, challenges, and the way forward

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In the era of climate change, irrigation is playing a pivotal role in stabilising food production, enabling dry season farming, and improving farmers’ livelihoods, particularly in Asia and African countries. Recently, Ghana has taken steps to respond to the concept of stakeholder collaboration to improve the irrigated agricultural sub-sector as well as enhance farmers’ resilience to changing climate. However, there is limited attention to recent diverging experiences on collaborative practices from irrigation stakeholders. Using the Weija Irrigation Scheme as a case study, this study explores stakeholders’ perceptions of collaborative practices in irrigation management by identifying gaps and providing suggestions to enhance stakeholder collaboration. We conducted focus group discussions with farmers and in-depth interviews with key informants, such as heads of farmer groups, government departments, agencies, and agricultural extension agents. Secondary data from conventional literature, organisational websites, and quarterly reports were also used. Following the integrated collaboration governance theory, effective collaboration was measured based on the tripartite prism of “principled engagement, shared motivation, and capacity for joint action”. Analysis of the data reveals that despite the central government’s resolve for collaborative irrigation planning and management, effective collaboration remains limited. Based on principle engagement, this study points out that weak communication and sharing of information remain in the planning and management of the Weija Irrigation Scheme. In terms of shared motivation, there were minimal commitment to joint project planning, exclusion of some key stakeholders from meetings, and negative attitudes towards collaboration. Finally, the capacity for joint action (e.g. lack of fund, time, staff, and equipment) is limited. The policy implications and suggestions for further research are presented in the study.

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Linking resource users' perceptions and collective action in commons management – an examination of water supply systems in Southern Senegal

Cited by 9 publications

References 7 publications

Water Gender Indicators in Agriculture: A Study of Horticultural Farmer Organizations in Senegal

Water Gender Indicators in Agriculture: A Study of Horticultural Farmer Organizations in Senegal

A multi-decadal and social-ecological systems analysis of community waterpoint payment behaviours in rural Kenya

Stakeholder collaboration and irrigation practices in Ghana: issues, challenges, and the way forward

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