Sustainability of rural water systems: quantitative analysis of Nicaragua’s monitoring data

Borja-Vega, Christian; Pena, Lilian; Stip, Clementine Marie

doi:10.3362/1756-3488.2017.003

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“…A previous report also indicates that a country's performance is related to the gap in rural and urban sanitation coverage in that country [24]. This means that it is necessary to strengthen the WASH-related institutions, for example, by capacity building, so they can improve their performance [25][26][27][28]. Furthermore, Machado et al [29] argue that external support is still necessary even though the support should be "gradually withdrawn from the community" so they can do their duties independently.…”

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Interaction of Factors Influencing the Sustainability of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Services in Rural Indonesia: Evidence from Small Surveys of WASH-Related Stakeholders in Indonesia

Daniel

Djohan

Nastiti

2021

Water

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It is argued that there are interconnected and dynamic factors that influence the sustainability of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services in developing countries. Five sustainability factors are often mentioned by literature: financial, institutional, environmental, technical, and social (FIETS) factors. This article aims to understand the interaction of those five sustainability factors in the context of WASH services in Indonesia. A system approach, in the form of a “modified” causal loop diagram, was utilized to analyze this interaction. The strength of influence from one factor to others were obtained from small surveys of 16 WASH practitioners and experts from international and national non-governmental organizations (NGOs) based in Indonesia and national government institutions related to WASH. It was found that institutional factor is the “leverage” factor, i.e., the most influential and least dependent, in the WASH services system in Indonesia. It means that WASH institutional strengthening is necessary to sustain WASH services in Indonesia. Furthermore, the most important feedback loop is social–WASH services. This depicts the importance of the bi-directional effect of WASH services and the social conditions of the community, i.e., the more supportive the community is, the higher the likelihood of the sustainability of WASH services, and then positively influence back the social conditions of the community. Moreover, the relationship between factors varies across context or location. Finally, this paper shows that the sustainability of WASH services involves complex interactions of the sustainability factors and understanding these interactions is critical to sustaining the WASH services or program in rural Indonesia.

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Interaction of Factors Influencing the Sustainability of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Services in Rural Indonesia: Evidence from Small Surveys of WASH-Related Stakeholders in Indonesia

Daniel

Djohan

Nastiti

2021

Water

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“…Another factor is the informality of community organizations, also considered a problem that undermines rural WSS (Moriarty et al, 2013;Borja-Vega et al, 2017;Leclert et al, 2016). This characteristic hinders the professionalization of the service provider, which could result in loss of efficiency in the long-term.…”

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“…This characteristic hinders the professionalization of the service provider, which could result in loss of efficiency in the long-term. Also, the legal status of service provider gives it access to benefits, such as discounted electricity, greater trust in tariff collection (Borja-Vega et al, 2017), as well as access to credit or legally contract support services (Leclert et al, 2016). It becomes even more worrying in cases where there is not an organization focused on the WTP, as in the case of Prata (where school staff manage the WTP) and Cruzeiro (where inhabitants take turns to switch the pump on and off).…”

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“…This is a participatory approach, i.e., the target community is responsible for operating, maintaining and managing the water plants, built with assistance of external actors that must provide constant financial, technical, institutional and political support to guarantee the systems' functionality (Kleemeier, 2000;Whittington et al, 2009;Hunter et al, 2010;Hutchings et al, 2015;Behnke et al, 2017). This tactic has been employed in many countries around the world, namely Brazil, Chile, Peru, Finland, Nepal and Nigeria (Heller and Pádua, 2006;Whittington et al, 2009;Opare, 2011;Borja-Vega et al, 2017;Calzada et al, 2017;Chukwuma, 2018;Rautanen and White, 2018). Among them, both successes and failures have been reported in the literature.…”

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Assessment of community-managed water systems in rural areas of Espírito Santo, Brazil, using the SIASAR tool

Machado¹,

Nogueira²,

Alves³

et al. 2020

Rev. ambiente água

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Rural communities usually are poorly covered by basic services, including water supply services (WSSs). Within this context, community management of water is a promising alternative to address this issue, with many successes all over the world. This approach also contributes to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6, which intends to universalize water access. This paper evaluates the WSSs provided by eleven rural community organizations from Espírito Santo, Brazil. All of those participate in the sanitation program “Pró-Rural” created by Cesan (Companhia Espiritosantense de Saneamento), the state water concessionaire, to reach small-sized rural settlements. For this purpose, Siasar was used, an informational tool that enables the identification of elements in the rural water supply systems (RWSSs) that can enhance or hinder their performance. The results verified that the communities were able to maintain a satisfactory level of quality of the WSSs, although there were perceptible fragilities regarding the distance between internal (communities and service providers) and external (technical assistance providers) actors that can decrease the quality of the WSS or even lead to its interruption if not addressed.

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“…For Nicaragua, several factors have been shown to support the sustainability of water schemes. These include demand-responsive approaches to developing, operating, managing, and maintaining rural water infrastructure; cost-recovery mechanisms; community participation in the management of water supply and sanitation (WSS) systems; efforts to build the management and oversight capacity of local community boards, and the sustained provision of post-construction technical assistance by local authorities in Nicaragua (Borja-Vega et al, 2017). For Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama (Cronk, 2017), the use of better monitoring tools has been emphasized.…”

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An Evaluation of the Contributing Factors of Water Scheme Failures in Nigeria

Andrés¹,

Chellaraj²,

Gupta³

et al. 2018

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The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

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Sustainability of rural water systems: quantitative analysis of Nicaragua’s monitoring data

Cited by 9 publications

References 10 publications

Interaction of Factors Influencing the Sustainability of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Services in Rural Indonesia: Evidence from Small Surveys of WASH-Related Stakeholders in Indonesia

Interaction of Factors Influencing the Sustainability of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Services in Rural Indonesia: Evidence from Small Surveys of WASH-Related Stakeholders in Indonesia

Assessment of community-managed water systems in rural areas of Espírito Santo, Brazil, using the SIASAR tool

An Evaluation of the Contributing Factors of Water Scheme Failures in Nigeria

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