Institutional pluralism and water user behavior in rural Africa

Johanna Koehler, Patrick Thomson, Susanna Goodall, Jacob Katuva and Rob Hope

World Development, 2021, vol. 140, issue C

Abstract: The Sustainable Development Goal of providing everyone with safe and reliable drinking water services combines a moral imperative with an entrepreneurial opportunity. We examine water user behavior in the face of institutional change brought about by a professional service provider maintaining rural water infrastructure in Kenya. We ask (1) which factors are associated with households and waterpoint user groups contracting a service provider that guarantees rapid repairs; (2) how do factors vary between different management cultures defined by cultural theory of risk; and (3) can the professional service provider address the risk factors?

Keywords: Risk; Water user behavior; Cultural theory; Professionalization; Rural water sustainability; Kenya (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105231

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