Realizing the Right to Sanitation in Deprived Urban Communities: Meeting the Challenges of Collective Action, Coproduction, Affordability, and Housing Tenure

Gordon McGranahan

World Development, 2015, vol. 68, issue C, 242-253

Abstract: There are serious institutional challenges associated with low-cost sanitation in deprived urban communities. These include a collective action challenge, a coproduction challenge, a challenge of affordability versus acceptability, and a challenge related to housing tenure. This paper examines these challenges, revealing both the importance of community-driven sanitation improvement and its difficulties. The nature of the challenges, and the means by which two successful community-driven initiatives have overcome them, suggest that while recognizing the human right to sanitation is important this should not be taken to imply that typical rights-based approaches are the appropriate means of realizing this right.

Keywords: sanitation; urban poverty; coproduction; rights-based; human rights (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.12.008

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