Learning from Sustained Success: How Community-Driven Initiatives to Improve Urban Sanitation Can Meet the Challenges

Gordon McGranahan and Diana Mitlin

World Development, 2016, vol. 87, issue C, 307-317

Abstract: Past research by one of the authors of this paper has identified four key institutional challenges that community-driven initiatives to improve sanitation in deprived urban settlements face: the collective action challenge of improving community sanitation; the coproduction challenge of working with formal service providers to dispose of the sanitary waste safely; the affordability challenge of reconciling the affordable with what is acceptable to both users and local authorities; and the tenure challenge of preventing housing insecurity from undermining residents’ willingness to commit to sanitary improvement.

Keywords: sanitation; coproduction; community organization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.06.019

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