posted on 2018-11-08, 15:34authored byMariana Matoso
The paper depicts Oxfam South Sudan experience in professionalising a community-based operating entity responsible for managing a water treatment plant in Juba, through WASH Market-based Programming. It describes how this was achieved by supporting the development of a business implementation plan and provision of tailored institutional support. Findings were based on market research conducted in 2017, with over 300 individuals being interviewed as part of the process, through quantitative (household willingness-to-pay survey) and qualitative methods. The paper concludes that community-based management arrangements remain relevant, especially in the context of protracted crisis. It recognises however that implementing agencies need to provide medium-term institutional support (well beyond the handover of infrastructure and especially throughout the first year of operations), if sustainability and pro-poor accessibility are to be ensured. The paper calls for a change in paradigm allowing the WASH sector to move from traditionally voluntary community management arrangements, towards professionalisation of community-based organisations.
Funding
This case study was made possible by the generous support of the American people through funding
received from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under a grant from the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA). The activities documented in the report formed part of the global program entitled ‘Promoting Market-based Responses to Emergencies through WASH Market Mapping and Analysis’ (OFDA Grant AIDOFDA-A-15-00038) managed by Oxfam.
History
School
Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Research Unit
Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)
Published in
Transformation towards sustainable and resilient WASH services: Proceedings of the 41st WEDC International Conference
Pages
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Citation
MATOSO, M., 2018. Pathways to professionalised community water services in a protracted crisis: a case from Juba. IN: Shaw, R.J. (ed). Transformation towards sustainable and resilient WASH services: Proceedings of the 41st WEDC International Conference, Nakuru, Kenya, 9-13 July 2018, Paper 3063, 6 pp.
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