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When water committee good practices are not relevant: sustainability of small water infrastructures in semi-arid Mozambique

Ducrot Raphaèle. 2014. When water committee good practices are not relevant: sustainability of small water infrastructures in semi-arid Mozambique. In : The hub for information dissemination and knowledge exchange in Integrated Water Resources Management in Southern and Eastern Africa, 15th WaterNet. WARFSA/GWP-SA Symposium, Lilongwe, Malawi, 29-31 October 2014. s.l. : s.n., 16 p. WaterNet/WARFSA/GWP-SA Symposium. 15, Lilongwe, Malawi, 29 Octobre 2014/31 Octobre 2014.

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Résumé : This paper explores the contradiction between the need of large scale intervention in rural water supply and the needed flexibility to support community institutions by investigating the implementation of the Mozambican National Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Program in a semiarid district of the Limpopo Basin. The results highlights that coordination between leaderships, the key committee members and the village governance level was more important for borehole sustainability that the normative functioning of the committee. In a context where the centrality of I eadershi p prevai Is for col I ecti ve action against the westerner concept of self-hel p and organization, sustai nabi I ity of rural water infrastructure derive from from the capacity of leaders to mobi I ize the community for supplementary funding. This in turn depends on the added value to the community of the water points and village politics. Any interventions that increased community conflicts for example for lack of transparency weakened the coordination and collective action capacity of the community and infrastructure sustainability. These results stress the role of project/program implementation pathway. Highlights: - At village level, money availability is more limiting for borehole maintenance than spare availability. - In local context leadership prevails upon water committee good practices. - External initiatives that increased community conflict collective action capacity of the community and consequently the sustai nabi I ity of small water infrastructure. - There is a need to producing measurable indicators focusing on the quality of support to community water institutions.

Classification Agris : P10 - Ressources en eau et leur gestion

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  • Ducrot Raphaèle, CIRAD-ES-UMR G-EAU (MOZ)

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