Popular participation, equity, and co-production of water and sanitation services in Caracas, Venezuela

McMillan, Rebecca; Spronk, Susan; Caswell, Calais

doi:10.1080/02508060.2014.886844

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“…At the core of these initiatives are the "technical water committees" e Mesas Tecnicas de Agua (MTA) e which are community-based organisations, built for the purpose of channelling community participation in the decision-making process and carrying out the physical improvements to service delivery (Allen, 2012;McMillan, Spronk, & Caswell, 2014). Governance arrangements develop around MTAs as a result of agreements, collaboration and cooperation with the water companies, the municipalities and all of the community members (McMillan et al, 2014;Moretto, 2014;Moretto & Allen, 2015).…”

Section: Urban Governance Assessmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Application of the “Urban Governance Index” to water service provisions: Between rhetoric and reality

Moretto

2015

Habitat International

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Section: Urban Governance Assessmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Application of the “Urban Governance Index” to water service provisions: Between rhetoric and reality

Moretto

2015

Habitat International

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“…In addition, a number of papers related to alternative WSS services in the Global South cities have been undertaken within urban studies. That research mainly focused on relations between informal and formal systems, considering co-production as one of the available options for involving a range of different actors in service delivery (Allen, 2013;Katsongo, 2012) or for securing citizens' political influence (McMillan et al, 2014;Mitlin, 2008). Many studies addressing water co-production are centred on individual cases.…”

Section: The Specificity Of Water and Sanitation Service Co-productiomentioning

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“…In many cities of the Global South, the need to provide services to a growing population challenges conventional planning, management approaches and userprovider relationships. Accordingly, greater attention to different user-provider arrangements and the role of users in producing services has recently increased in international and scientific communities (Joshi & Moore, 2004;McGranahan, 2013;McMillan, Spronk, & Caswell, 2014;Mitlin, 2008;Moretto & Ranzato, 2017;United Nations [UN], 2016a). The concept of co-production was initially developed in public governance and management fields.…”

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A comprehensive framework for analyzing co-production of urban water and sanitation services in the Global South

Faldi

Rosati

Moretto

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Water International

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Typologies of Institutionalised Co-production of Water and Sanitation Services in the Urban South (TYCO-WSS). A comprehensive framework for analyzing co-production of urban water and sanitation services in the Global South Co-production of water and sanitation services has become a widely discussed option for equitable and efficient service delivery, especially for cities of the Global South. Theoretical conceptualizations of service co-production mainly refer to the public management and governance dimension, while the technoenvironmental and spatial dimensions are often disregarded in the literature. This paper proposes a comprehensive framework for analyzing water and sanitation coproduction based on cross-cutting literature, from public service management/governance to urban, socio-ecological and socio-technical fields. The proposed framework highlights the categories and factors to be considered when analyzing the background conditions and outcomes of unorthodox service delivery.

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“…McMillan, Spronk, and Caswell, e.g., discuss ‘technical water committees (MTAs)’ in Venezuela that have empowered neighborhoods and helped to deliver water to poor community members. These successes received little attention in the broader development literature, but nonetheless represent an example of models that leverage, but also move beyond, critique . Although it is too early to evaluate the practical impact of such interventions, we contend that they provide a model for orienting future critical research on urban water governance: rather than treating critique as an end itself, using it as a means to help us identify better existing models and to construct new ones.…”

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Critical approaches to urban water governance: from critique to justice, democracy, and transdisciplinary collaboration

Finewood

Holifield

2015

WIREs Water

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As global urban regions grow and transform, water systems present a unique set of challenges to stakeholders. Municipalities often struggle to pay for and maintain aging infrastructure as well as create equitable access for growing populations-especially in the rapidly urbanizing Global South. Critical approaches to urban water governance have made tremendous contributions to our collective knowledge of how these systems work. In this study, we argue that the most important direction for these approaches to urban water governance is to translate the insights generated by critique into the positive project to construct more just and democratic systems and practices of governance. However, we contend that in order to do this work, critical scholarship on urban water governance will need to continue deepening its engagement with two larger sets of debates. First, to help realize more just and democratic systems, it will need to grapple with the complex dimensions of debates on how to theorize and conceptualize justice and democracy. Second, in order to create effective alternatives to current paradigms of water governance, it will need to show how recent conceptualizations of urban water as hybrid or heterogeneous assemblage can help build truly transdisciplinary collaborations. We explore these debates through a review of recent critical approaches to urban water governance, with attention to ways forward that embrace epistemological pluralism and transdisciplinary collaboration.

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Popular participation, equity, and co-production of water and sanitation services in Caracas, Venezuela

Cited by 38 publications

References 21 publications

Application of the “Urban Governance Index” to water service provisions: Between rhetoric and reality

Application of the “Urban Governance Index” to water service provisions: Between rhetoric and reality

A comprehensive framework for analyzing co-production of urban water and sanitation services in the Global South

Critical approaches to urban water governance: from critique to justice, democracy, and transdisciplinary collaboration

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