1 option
Governance Drivers of Rural Water Sustainability : Collaboration in Frontline Service Delivery / Dikshya Thapa.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Thapa, Dikshya.
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Collective Action.
- Deviance Analysis.
- Frontline Leadership.
- Infrastructure.
- Local Governance.
- Mixed Methods.
- Rural Water.
- Rural Water Supply and Sanitation.
- Small Private Water Supply Providers.
- State Embeddedness.
- Sustainability.
- Water Supply and Sanitation.
- Water Supply and Sanitation Economics.
- Water Supply and Sanitation Governance and Institutions.
- Local Subjects:
- Collective Action.
- Deviance Analysis.
- Frontline Leadership.
- Infrastructure.
- Local Governance.
- Mixed Methods.
- Rural Water.
- Rural Water Supply and Sanitation.
- Small Private Water Supply Providers.
- State Embeddedness.
- Sustainability.
- Water Supply and Sanitation.
- Water Supply and Sanitation Economics.
- Water Supply and Sanitation Governance and Institutions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (32 pages)
- Other Title:
- Governance Drivers of Rural Water Sustainability
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2021.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- This paper contributes to a long-standing debate in development practice: Under what conditions can externally established participatory groups engage in the collective management of services beyond the life of a project Using 10 years of panel data on water point functionality from Indonesia's rural water program, the Program for Community-Based Water Supply and Sanitation, the paper explores the determinants of subnational variation in infrastructure sustainability. It then investigates positive and negative deviance cases to answer why some communities have successfully engaged in system management despite being located in difficult conditions as per quantitative findings and vice versa. The findings show that differences in the implementation of community participation, driven by local social relations between frontline service providers, that is, village authorities and water user groups, explain sustainable management. This initial condition of state-society relations influences how the project is initiated, kicking off negative or positive reinforcing pathways, leading to community collective action or exit. The paper concludes that the relationships between frontline government representatives and community actors are an important and underexamined aspect of the ability of external projects to generate successful community-led management of public goods.
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.