Is community water management the community's choice? Implications for water and development policy in Africa
Is community water management the community's choice? Implications for water and development policy in Africa
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10.2166/wp.2014.170
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发表时间：
2015-01-01
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1.6
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Hope, Rob
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作者：
Hope, Rob
全球普遍饮用水安全的努力在非洲农村陷入了停滞。手动泵的社区管理为超过 2 亿农村人口提供水，是普遍但日益陷入困境的政策选择。选择实验旨在测试维护提供商、维护级别、支付模式和支付级别的竞争属性的替代维护模型。根据肯尼亚农村地区 118 名手泵用户的 3,540 个观察样本进行建模。结果表明，维护服务的社区管理是最不受欢迎的选择，用户付费取决于手压泵维修时间的数量级改善。社会选择异质性因社会经济地位和用水行为而异，表明社区内的采用情况不均匀，加上不可接受的支付模式。对社区选择的政策反应需要通过新的监测平台和可接受的支付系统来应对这些制度挑战。
The global drive for universal drinking water security has faltered in rural Africa. Community management of handpumps, which provide water to over 200 million rural people, is the prevailing but increasingly embattled policy choice. A choice experiment is designed to test alternative maintenance models across competing attributes of maintenance provider, maintenance level, payment mode, and payment level. A sample of 3,540 observations is modeled from 118 handpump users in rural Kenya. Results identify community management of maintenance services as the least preferred option with water user payments contingent on an order of magnitude improvement in handpump repair times. Social choice heterogeneity varies by socio-economic status and water use behaviors indicating uneven adoption profiles within communities compounded by no acceptable payment mode. Policy responses to community choices need to address these institutional challenges through new monitoring platforms and acceptable payment systems.