A systematic review of success factors in the community management of rural water supplies over the past 30 years

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dc.contributor.authorHutchings, Paul
dc.contributor.authorChan, Mei Yee
dc.contributor.authorCuadrado, Lucie
dc.contributor.authorEzbakhe, Fatine
dc.contributor.authorMesa, Baptiste
dc.contributor.authorTamekawa, Chiaki
dc.contributor.authorFranceys, Richard
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-20T15:37:16Z
dc.date.available2016-09-20T15:37:16Z
dc.date.issued2015-03-14
dc.description.abstractCommunity management is the accepted management model for rural water supplies in many low and middleincome countries. However, endemic problems in the sustainability and scalability of this model are leading many to conclude we have reached the limits of an approach that is too reliant on voluntarism and informality. Accepting this criticism but recognising that many cases of success have been reported over the past 30 years, this study systematically reviews and analyses the development pattern of 174 successful community management case studies. The synthesis confirms the premise that for community management to be sustained at scale, community institutions need a ‘plus’ that includes long-term external support, with the majority of high performing cases involving financial support, technical advice and managerial advice. Internal community characteristics were also found to be influential in terms of success, including collective initiative, strong leadership and institutional transparency. Through a meta-analysis of success in different regions, the paper also indicates an important finding on the direct relationship between success and the prevailing socio-economic wealth in a society. This holds implications for policy and programme design with a need to consider how broad structural conditions may dictate the relative success of different forms of community management.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationHutchings P. et al. (2015) A systematic review of success factors in the community management of rural water supplies over the past 30 years. Vol. 17, Iss. 5, pp 963-983en_UK
dc.identifier.issn1366-7017
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wp.2015.128
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/10557
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherIWA Publishingen_UK
dc.subjectcommunity managementen_UK
dc.subjectparticipationen_UK
dc.subjectrural water supplyen_UK
dc.subjectservice deliveryen_UK
dc.subjectsustainabilityen_UK
dc.titleA systematic review of success factors in the community management of rural water supplies over the past 30 yearsen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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