Front Cover

About CROP

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Figures and Tables

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Part One: Context

Introduction

Reference

1: Water, Development and Good Governance

Introduction

Developmentalism

Market Miracles

Soft Solutions

Ways Forward

References

2: Liquid Dynamics: Challenges for Sustainability in the Water Domain

Introduction

Current Debates: Examining the Fault-Lines and Beyond

Addressing Sustainability in Dynamic Water Systems

Meeting Governance Challenges in Water

Designing Appraisal of Water Systems and Services

Conclusions: Ways Forward for Research and Practice

Note

References

3: Can IWRM Float on a Sea of Underdevelopment? Reflections on Twenty-Plus Years of ‘Reform’ in Sub-Saharan Africa

Introduction

Somewhere Between the ‘Is’ and the ‘Ought’

The African State Form

Signs of ‘The Ought’

(i) States as Beneficiaries

(ii) Pressure from Below

(iii) ‘Peer Pressure’

(iv) The Irresistible Setting

(v) Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Conclusion

Notes

References

4: Water Politics in Eastern and Southern Africa

Introduction

Different Meanings of the IWRM-Based Water Sector Reform

Institutional Change

Overlaying Decentralized Institutions of Water Management

Parallel Processes of Decentralization

Multiple Decentralizations

Mismatch Between Rain-Fed and Wetland Agriculture and Participation

Lack of Knowledge Among Representatives of New Water Users

References

Part Two: Case Study

5: Integrated Water Management and Social Development in Uganda

Introduction

Uganda’s Rural Water Supply Sector in a Historical Perspective

Access to Safe Water in Sub-Saharan Africa and the National Picture in Uganda

Social-Spatial Disparities in a Rural Parish of Lwengo District

Socio-Demographic Profile of Households

Household Composition and Leadership

Household Poverty

Household Access to Water

Health

Water Usage in the Home

Knowledge and Perceptions About Safe Water Service Delivery

Conclusion

Notes

References

6: Governance and Safe Water Provisioning in Uganda: Theory and Practice

Introduction

Access to Safe Water and the Governance Challenge

Defining Water Governance

Actors, Roles and Responsibilities in Uganda’s Institutional Framework for Rural Water Supply

Conclusion

Notes

References

7: Woman Water Keeper? Women’s Troubled Participation in Water Resource Management

Introduction

Women as Community Water Keepers

Gender and Construction of Water Technologies

Representation in Water User Committees

Conducting Meetings

Setting the Agenda

Conclusion

Notes

References

8: Women and Water Politics: An Ethnographic Gender Perspective

Introduction

Women, Water and Health

Gender Perspectives

Gender and Water – Evidence from Uganda

Water and Health – A Sociocultural Perspective

Conclusion

Note

References

9: Understanding Adaptive Capacity on the Ground: A Case of Agro-Pastoralists in a Rural Parish, Uganda

Introduction

The Research Approach

Agro-Pastoralists’ Adaptive Capacities and their Importance in the Wider Community

Interaction Between Adaptive Capacity and the Process of Land Enclosure

Conflicts with Other Resource Users

Conclusion

Note

References

10: Functional Sustainability of Hand Pumps for Rural Water Supply

Introduction

Methodology

Results and Discussion

Conclusion

References

Part Three: Balance Sheet

11: Beyond the MDGS: Can the Water Crisis for the Poor Finally Be Resolved?

Introduction

The Main Issues

Strategy in Water and Sanitation Delivery

Trends in Deprivation: Africa vs Southern Asia

Trends in Access in Africa

Relative and Absolute Deprivation

Six Findings

The Politics of Delivery

Bottom-Up Perspectives

Sustainability: Climate Change and Responses

Post-2015 Options

Conclusion

Notes

References

Notes on Contributors

Index

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