The governance of service delivery for the poor and women: A study of rural water supply in Ethiopia

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen_US
cg.coverage.countryEthiopiaen_US
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africaen_US
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africaen_US
cg.coverage.regionAfricaen_US
cg.creator.identifierTewodaj Mogues: 0000-0002-3816-8445en_US
cg.creator.identifierJosee Randriamamonjy: 0000-0002-5810-254Xen_US
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Ethiopia Strategy Support Programen_US
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Development Strategy and Governance Divisionen_US
cg.number8en_US
cg.placeAddis Ababa, Ethiopiaen_US
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen_US
dc.contributor.authorMogues, Tewodajen_US
dc.contributor.authorCohen, Marc J.en_US
dc.contributor.authorBirner, Reginaen_US
dc.contributor.authorLemma, Mamushaen_US
dc.contributor.authorRandriamamonjy, Joseeen_US
dc.contributor.authorTadesse, Fanayeen_US
dc.contributor.authorPaulos, Zelekaworken_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-21T10:00:49Zen_US
dc.date.available2024-11-21T10:00:49Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/162053en_US
dc.titleThe governance of service delivery for the poor and women: A study of rural water supply in Ethiopiaen_US
dcterms.abstractThis study presents empirical findings on drinking water supply in Ethiopia from a set of qualitative and quantitive surveys on rural public services. Access to safe drinking water is very low: 32% of the surveyed households use safe drinking water sources, and the average time to get to safe water sources during dry season ranged from 29 minutes to 82 minutes. The households covered in the Ethiopia survey may still have better access than the national average. Households identify drinking water as their main priority concern, yet they report high satisfaction rates and hardly take any action to complain. 71% of the households were very or somewhat satisfied with the quantity and 52% with the quality of drinking water, even though access was very low. What is surprising with these findings is the fact that a considerable share of the households identified water as their number one concern among a series of services in their area. This raises questions about how best to elicit information about satisfaction with rural services. Drinking water has undergone far-reaching decentralisation. The construction and major rehabilitation of drinking water facilities is managed by district water desks, which are backstopped by the Regional Water Bureaus. Water committees have been established, each of which usually manages one water facility. Making water committees inclusive seems challenging. Although bringing water to the household is predominantly a task undertaken by women (and their children), the study found that in all sites except for one, the water committee leaders were men The water committees also do not seem to be very effective in counteracting the top-down nature of service provision. The study found that in some cases the functioning of water facilities was compromised if the organization that constructed the facility did not take into account the community’s knowledge of water sources in determining where to locate the facility.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationMogues, Tewodaj; Cohen, Marc J.; Birner, Regina; Lemma, Mamusha; Randriamamonjy, Josee; Tadesse, Fanaye; Paulos, Zelekawork. 2009. The governance of service delivery for the poor and women. ESSP II Discussion Paper 8. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/162053en_US
dcterms.extent62 p.en_US
dcterms.isPartOfESSP II Discussion Paperen_US
dcterms.issued2009en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen_US
dcterms.publisherEthiopian Development Research Instituteen_US
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/130937en_US
dcterms.subjectgovernanceen_US
dcterms.subjectpovertyen_US
dcterms.subjectgenderen_US
dcterms.subjectwater supplyen_US
dcterms.subjectdecentralizationen_US
dcterms.subjectwater managementen_US
dcterms.typeWorking Paperen_US

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