Drinking Water Management and Community Participation: Participation ensures sustainability - Softcover

Binu, Deepa; Puram, Binu K

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3845473371 ISBN 13: 9783845473376

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

This book critically evaluates the importance of community participation in community driven water and sanitation projects.Being a comparative analysis it is visualizing the role of community as well as the stakeholders.For a popularity two very fruitful projects,Jalanidhi& Swajaldhara, has been referred for the study.Jalanidhi is a world bank aided project implemented by Govt of kerala. Swajaldhara is a Government of India programme implemented in the national level.The first one is more participatory in nature and acclaimed globally . community ownership is very visible in the project.While working in Jalanidhi,the authors were invited by Swajaldhara community to help them to make a jalanidhi model governance in their schemes.its a narration of field experience rather than a academic experiment.

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About the Author:

Deepabinu is a social worker.Completed her M Phil and doing PhD.Working as a public relation officer in National Rural Health Mission.Binu K Puram is a sociologist&Trainer.He practiced and researched around 10 years in Rural&Urban Water and sanitation projects .Presently working in Disaster Risk Reduction with Government of India and UNDP.

About this edition

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 3845473371
• ISBN 13: 9783845473376
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 148