Rethinking the economics of rural water in Africa
Rural Africa lags behind global progress to provide safe drinking water to everyone. Decades of effort and billions of dollars of investment have yielded modest gains, with high but avoidable health and economic costs borne by over 300m people lacking basic water access. We explore why rural water i...
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2020
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| description | Rural Africa lags behind global progress to provide safe drinking water to everyone. Decades of effort and billions of dollars of investment have yielded modest gains, with high but avoidable health and economic costs borne by over 300m people lacking basic water access. We explore why rural water is different for communities, schools, and healthcare facilities across characteristics of scale, institutions, demand, and finance. The findings conclude with policy recommendations to (i) network rural services at scale, (ii) unlock rural payments by creating value, and (iii) design and test performance-based funding models at national and regional scales, with an ambition to eliminate the need for future, sustainable development goals. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:172de7e5-b3e1-4017-adc7-589659bef90e2022-03-26T10:35:41ZRethinking the economics of rural water in AfricaJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:172de7e5-b3e1-4017-adc7-589659bef90eEnglishSymplectic Elements Oxford University Press 2020Hope, RThomson, PKoehler, JFoster, TRural Africa lags behind global progress to provide safe drinking water to everyone. Decades of effort and billions of dollars of investment have yielded modest gains, with high but avoidable health and economic costs borne by over 300m people lacking basic water access. We explore why rural water is different for communities, schools, and healthcare facilities across characteristics of scale, institutions, demand, and finance. The findings conclude with policy recommendations to (i) network rural services at scale, (ii) unlock rural payments by creating value, and (iii) design and test performance-based funding models at national and regional scales, with an ambition to eliminate the need for future, sustainable development goals. |
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| title | Rethinking the economics of rural water in Africa |
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