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Taking people to water instead of taking water to people: changes in Ghana's rural water sector
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posted on 2018-02-12, 15:09 authored by Nii Odai Laryea, F. Mawuena DotseThe paper highlights key issues emerging from a “conversion programme”, the Accompanying Measures
Eastern Region (AMER) Project, during which over 150 hand-pumps previously centrally-managed and
maintained by government (the 3000 Wells Project), were transferred to rural communities for ownership
and management (COM). Implementation was carried out in the Eastern Region of Ghana between 1996
and 2001. To ease the burden on communities to make the transition “transfer-friendly”, communities could
pay 50% of arrears owed over six months for the rest to be written off, local residents were trained for
maintenance of facilities and there was free rehabilitation of the hand-pumps. Even though some challenges
were encountered, there were interesting findings such as the long time it takes for COM to take root in rural
communities towards sustainability, the need to make alternative arrangements for maintenance of facilities
and the complex relationships between socio-cultural configurations and payment of arrears.
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LARYEA, N.O. and DOTSE, F.M., 2008. Taking people to water instead of taking water to people: changes in Ghana's rural water sector. IN: Jones, H. (ed). Access to sanitation and safe water - Global partnerships and local actions: Proceedings of the 33rd WEDC International Conference, Accra, Ghana, 7-11 April 2008, pp. 217-221.Publisher
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