Abstract:Professionalized maintenance arrangements are growing
throughout
sub-Saharan Africa to improve rural water infrastructure functionality
after decades of largely unsuccessful community-based management (CBM),
but factors influencing their success are understudied. We used a
multimethod approach to (1) identify influential factors on rural
water system reliability and sustainability in the literature; (2)
determine the most influential factors for professionalized maintenance
through focus group discussions with… Show more
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