Resources / Scaling Up Community Management of Rural Water Supply Thematic Group

IRC, Netherlands

PO Box 82327, 2508 EH, Den Haag

2508 EH

The Netherlands

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Water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)

A specific aspect of WSH (specify)

English

Action research Scaling up Conference Kampala 2010 Advocacy Guide 2009.

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The Thematic Group has been by practitioners, donors, and researchers after a meeting in 2001 in Delhi to look more closely at issues of scaling up community managed rural water supplies. Having become inactive, it was decided in 2010 to submerge into Rural Water Supply Network.

The thematic group focus on community managed water supply, principally in rural areas, within a livelihoods framework (sanitation, hygiene, food production, economic uses etc). It will identify and explore effective ways in which limited resources in the water sector can be used to serve the most people for the longest time in the quickest way. "The group focuses on two challenges: • ensuring that community water services are sustainable in the long term, which means that adequate institutional arrangements are in place to support community management; and • finding ways to increase coverage from current “islands” of success to reach entire populations. "

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