Livelihood rights perspective on water reform: Reflections on rural Zimbabwe

Derman, Bill; Hellum, Anne

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2006.04.005

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“…But in the worst case, this top-down policy change might even have destabilised past community initiatives due to the creation of unclear roles and rules. Water reforms in Zambia also posed multiple challenges to current local management norms and practices (Derman and Hellum 2007). Whereas it seems that strong policy backup has strengthened local water institutions in Zambia (Chitonge 2011), or deliberate technical assistance supported local communities in Ghana (World Bank 2005), the Ugandan implementation process might have been too fast and without enough support.…”

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“…As devolution trends are spreading internationally, reforms in the water sector have taken place in various developing countries such as Ghana (Imoro and Fielmua 2011), India (Gopakumar 2010), Zambia (Chitonge 2011), Malawi and Tanzania (Mathew 2004), Zimbabwe (Kujinga and Jonker 2006;Derman and Hellum 2007), Ethiopia (Lenaerts et al 2013), Burkina Faso and Mali (Cherlet and Venot 2013) or South Africa (Goldin 2010). The results of water policy reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa are a mixture of success and failures as indicated by evidence from Uganda (Asingwire 2008;Nkonya et al 2008;Nakano and Otsuka 2011;Mugumya 2013), Ghana (Fielmua 2011), Zambia (Chitonge 2011) or Ethiopia (Lenaerts et al 2013).…”

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Challenging pathways to safe water access in rural Uganda: From supply to demand-driven water governance

2015

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Uganda has experienced a major policy shift from a supply-driven to a demand-driven approach in rural water provision since 1990. The article sheds light on the rural population's access to safe water within the changing institutional frameworks. We analysed individual and group interviews with key informants from national to community levels and relevant official documents with the 'SocialEcological Systems' framework and the 'design principles'. Since the implementation of the demand-driven approach, rural safe water coverage has slightly improved but operation and maintenance of water sources pose a great challenge hampering, longterm access to safe water. The abrupt and top-down imposed policy shift has resulted in competing signals from old and new policies creating uncertainty and ambiguity about responsibilities, rules and incentives. The analysis shows the importance of taking into account the implications of national institutional disturbances on local collective action for long-term access to safe water.

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Challenging pathways to safe water access in rural Uganda: From supply to demand-driven water governance

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“…Here, we conclude by suggesting that (a) managers of community water supplies schemes together with their development partners should continue to encourage CP as a policy most suitable for improving water service delivery in both the developing and developed world during this period of unprecedented climate change and rapid SN Soc Sci (2021) 1: 37Page 17 of 20 37 population increase, and (b) we note that while no doubt remain on the prowess of CP theory as a tool for success in the water service sector, more specific case studies based on comparative evaluations are still needed. This is particularly important due to the policy reforms taking place in the water sector in most developing countries such as Zambia (Chitonge 2011), Malawi andTanzania (Mathew 2004), Zimbabwe (Derman and Hellum 2007), Ethiopia (Lenaerts et al 2013), Ghana (Imoro andFielmua 2011), India (Gopakumar 2010), Burkina Faso and Mali (Cherlet and Venot 2013), and even South Africa (Goldin 2010). The results of water policy reforms in most Sub-Saharan Africa are a mixture of success and failures.…”

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Examining the contribution of community participation in water resource production and management: perspectives from developing countries

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“…A central feature of successful water reform within developed and developing countries is community involvement, ‘implying that planning and managing with and for people is the core business of water managers’ (Syme and Hatfield‐Dodds 2007). Devolved water management has become a facet of the wider process of decentralisation of resource governance; based on the premise that local‐level management is assumed to result in improved opportunities for sustainable livelihoods (Derman and Hellum 2007). The same forces that are compelling water managers to engage with communities are contributing to the emergence of what Poff et al.…”

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Recognition of Indigenous Interests in Australian Water Resource Management, with Particular Reference to Environmental Flow Assessment

Jackson

2008

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Australia's new national water policy represents a substantial change from the previous approach, because it recognises a potential need for allocations to meet particular indigenous requirements, which will have to be quantitatively defined in water allocation plans. However, indigenous values associated with rivers and water are presently poorly understood by decision‐makers, and some are difficult to quantify or otherwise articulate in allocation decisions. This article describes the range of Australian indigenous values associated with water, and the way they have been defined in contemporary water resource policy and discourse. It argues that the heavy reliance of indigenous values on healthy river systems indicates that, theoretically at least, they are logically suited for consideration in environmental flow assessments. However, where indigenous interests have been considered for assessment planning purposes indigenous values have tended to be overlooked in a scientific process that leaves little room for different world views relating to nature, intangible environmental qualities and human relationships with river systems that are not readily amenable to quantification. There is often an implicit but untested assumption that indigenous interests will be protected through the provision of environmental flows to meet aquatic ecosystem requirements, but the South African and New Zealand approaches to environmental flow assessment, for example, demonstrate different riverine uses potentially can be accommodated. Debate with indigenous land‐holders and experimentation will show how suited different environment flow assessment techniques are to addressing indigenous environmental philosophies and values.

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Livelihood rights perspective on water reform: Reflections on rural Zimbabwe

Cited by 10 publications

References 13 publications

Challenging pathways to safe water access in rural Uganda: From supply to demand-driven water governance

Challenging pathways to safe water access in rural Uganda: From supply to demand-driven water governance

Examining the contribution of community participation in water resource production and management: perspectives from developing countries

Recognition of Indigenous Interests in Australian Water Resource Management, with Particular Reference to Environmental Flow Assessment

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