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Getting it together: a multi-disciplinary approach to service delivery
conference contribution
posted on 2018-02-12, 15:09 authored by Annette Bos, Paul DeverillSince the beginning of the international drinking water
and sanitation decade, now over twenty years ago, a great
deal has been achieved. Yet even today, 1.1 billion people
lack access to safe drinking water, and 2.4 billion, or two
out of every five persons lack access to sanitation (JMP,
2000). Whilst there is little hard data to say who these
people actually are, there is growing anecdotal evidence
that many of the poorest members of society have been left
out.
Meanwhile, much has been learnt about service delivery.
Several major evaluations have reached similar conclusions:
projects that did not take into account user demand suffer
from poor use, poor sustainability and poor cost recovery
(for example, see Cairncross, 1992 and White, 1997).
These and other findings have resulted in the emergence of
demand focused methodologies, the best known of which
is known by its acronym, DRA.
History
School
- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Research Unit
- Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)
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WEDC ConferenceCitation
BOS, A. and DEVERILL, P., 2001. Getting it together: a multi-disciplinary approach to service delivery. IN: Scott, R. (ed). People and systems for water, sanitation and health: Proceedings of the 27th WEDC International Conference, Lusaka, Zambia, 20-24 August 2001, pp. 91-93.Publisher
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