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According to the 2015 Tanzania Water Point Mapping data, about 29 percent of all water points are non-functional, out of which 20 percent failed within the first year. This paper analyzes the various factors which impact water point failure and measures the relative contributions of these...
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Climate-driven water variability is a natural phenomenon observed across river basins, but predicted to increase due to climate change. Environmental change of this kind may aggravate political tensions, especially in regions that are not equipped with an appropriate institutional apparatus....
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In the Middle East and North Africa, food security and water security are tightly entwined. In particular, choices about the extent to which food security policies rely on trade rather than domestically produced staples have stark consequences for the region's limited water resources. This paper...
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customers in the cities of Sub-Saharan Africa. Fifty-five percent of the unconnected urban population relies on standpipes as … vendors, which are the first water source of 1 percent and 3 percent of the urban population, respectively. In the cities … efficient solution in peri-urban areas. Programs that promote private household connections and arrangements that improve …
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This paper utilizes information from the 2015 Nigeria National Water and Sanitation Survey to identify the extent, timing, as well as reasons for the failure of water points. The paper finds that more than 38 percent of all improved water points are nonfunctional. The results indicate that...
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Governments and developing agencies promote participatory approaches in solving common pool resource problems, such as in the water sector. Two main participatory approaches have been applied separately, namely negotiation and mediation. In this paper the authors apply the Role-Playing Game that...
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urban areas is having a significant impact on the quantity and quality of water available as inputs into the production and …
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Although water variability has already been observed across river basins, climate change is predicted to increase variability. Such environmental changes may aggravate political tensions, especially in regions that are not equipped with an appropriate institutional apparatus. Increased...
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This paper investigates a women's self-help group program with more than 1.5 million participants in one of the poorest … rural areas of Northern India. The program has four streams of activity in micro-savings, agricultural enterprise training …, health and nutrition education, and political participation. The paper considers whether there is any evidence that program …
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