Impact of beneficiary participation in rural water supply and sanitation projects: evidence from a comparative study in India

dc.contributor.author	Manikutty, S.
dc.date.accessioned	2010-04-05T09:29:57Z
dc.date.available	2010-04-05T09:29:57Z
dc.date.copyright	1996-08
dc.date.issued	2010-04-05T09:29:57Z
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11718/1939
dc.description.abstract	This is comparative study of two rural water supply and sanitation projects in Kerala, similar in practically all aspects except that one project incorporated community participation in it and the other did not. The study compares the outcomes in the two projects and finds that there is unmistakable evidence that community participation has a favourable impact on the outcomes. The following are the ways through which this linkage gets established: (i) better aggregation of preferences; (ii) better design through use of local knowledge; (iii) pressure by community on bureaucracies to perform; and (iv) better sustainability through feeling of ownership. Community participation is effective under certain institutional conditions which are discussed in the paper.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	WP;1996/1323
dc.subject	Water supply	en
dc.subject	Rural water supply
dc.subject	Sanitation projects
dc.title	Impact of beneficiary participation in rural water supply and sanitation projects: evidence from a comparative study in India	en
dc.type	Working Paper	en