Resources / Scaling up Community Management of Rural Water Supply

Summary

Many community management projects have been small in scale and highly repetitive in the essential elements of mobilization, participation, needs assessment, willingness-to-pay surveys, capacity building and, eventually, project implementation. There is not enough time and resources to continue with this intensive approach to building new systems. The author suggests concentrating on scaling up the community management model to bring concurrent success to many communities at one time. This paper provides an introduction and overview of scaling up as well as looking at some of the work that is currently being done in the area. It also serves as an advocacy tool for promoting the scaling up of community management of rural water supply.