Access to water in a Nairobi slum: women’s work and institutional learning

Ben D Crow and Edmond Odaba

Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, Working Paper Series from Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, UC Santa Cruz

Abstract: This paper describes the ways that households, and particularly women, experience water scarcity in a large informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya, through heavy expenditures of time and money, considerable investments in water storage and routinized sequences of defer red household tasks. It then delineates three phases of adaptive water and social engineering undertaken in several informal settlements by the Nairobi Water Company in an ongoing attempt to construct effective municipal institutions and infrastructure to improve residential access to water and loosen the grip that informal vendors may have on the market for water in these localities.

Keywords: slums; water supply; water markets; institutions; deliberative democracy; gender; household water storage; Kenya; Social and Behavioral Sciences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-11-01
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