How well is the demand-driven, community management model for rural water supply systems doing? Evidence from Bolivia, Peru and Ghana

Water Policy

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 696-718

  Whittington, Dale ^a,b   Davis, Jennifer ^c   Prokopy, Linda ^d   Komives, Kristin ^e   Thorsten, Richard ^f   Lukacs, Heather ^c   Bakalian, Alexander ^g   Wakeman, Wendy ^g  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

^f WaterPartners International   (United States)

^g WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Bolivia; Community management; Ghana; Peru; Post construction support; Rural water supply

Indexed keywords

EID: 77149129268     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2009.310     Document Type: Article

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