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Institutionalization of community participation in rural water supply, Pakistan

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posted on 2018-02-12, 15:08 authored by Mushtaq A. Memon
Community participation is a basic requirement for improving financial and managerial capacity for operation and maintenance of rural water supply schemes. Institutionalization of community participation requires a detailed action plan, which involves institutional reforms in the public sector as well as the formation of effective village and women’s organizations. In Pakistan, the Public Health Engineering Department was reorganized to include three new departments: Community Participation, Human Resources and Training, and MIS. The project teams were hired and trained to assist villages in carrying out the community participation process. This process includes formation of representative village development associations (VDA) and women’s organizations, conduct of regular meetings, collection of user fees, health and hygiene education, and provision of in-kind contribution. After the completion of water supply schemes, VDAs are required to takeover operation and maintenance. The post-operational study shows that this approach has helped to improve willingness to pay (WTP) due to improved quality and reliability of water supply.

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  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

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  • Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)

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MEMON, M.A., 2004. Institutionalization of community participation in rural water supply, Pakistan. IN: Godfrey, S. (ed). People-centred approaches to water and environmental sanitation: Proceedings of the 30th WEDC International Conference, Vientiane, Laos, 25-29 October 2004, pp. 287-290.

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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2004

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This is a conference paper.

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WEDC_ID:11329

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  • en

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