Community Management
Community management is the functional control of systems by communities or their representatives. It can and often does, but does not have to, include elements of community ownership, and involvement in day to day operation and maintenance. It is particularly reliant on clarity of ownership of schemes.
Ensuring Sustained Beneficial Outcomes for Water and Sanitation Programmes in the Developing World
04 Jan 06
The two objectives of this document are firstly to suggest approaches to achieve sustained beneficial outcomes from WATSAN, and secondly how to ‘scale up’ application of these approaches, so that they impact positively on the lives of the millions of people who live without safe water or adequate sanitation.
Read more or download OP40-E.pdf (1.3 MB)
Scaling up Community Management of Rural Water Supply
30 Mar 04
This Thematic Overview Paper (TOP) is a summary of a comprehensive discussion on Scaling Up of Community Management of Rural Water Supply in a paper by Harold Lockwood and Ton Schouten. The full paper is available in PDF and a summary is available in HTML format.
Read more or download ScalingUp_CM.pdf (382.1 kB)
Pour un service continu: Un manuel d’appui à la gestion communautaire de l’approvisionnement en eau en milieu rural
25 Mar 04
‘Pour un Service Continu’ (traduction de l'anglais 'Keep It Working') est un outil de travail destiné au personnel sur le terrain et a pour but d'appuyer les communautés dans la gestion de leur propre système d’approvisionnement en eau. Ce livre vous offre des idées et un guide pratique sous forme de fiches d’information, d’outils et de fiches de contrôle. Ils traitent des questions majeures dans le domaine de la gestion communautaire de l’approvisionnement en eau en milieu rural et vous aideront à mieux faire votre travail.
Supporting Community Management: a manual for training in community management in the water and sanitation sector
31 Aug 02
This manual provides background on key concepts and skill, and innovative tools to help improve the training of field staff related to community management of water and sanitation services.
This manual is divided in two parts.
How to Support Community Management of Water Supplies: Guidelines for managers
31 Dec 01
This book is for those who are in charge of facilitating community management of water supplies. It provides guidelines and food for thought for managers and decision-makers who want to improve the performance of their organisation and make sure that water supply services in place keep working. It answers such questions as: what kind of support do communities require? How can this support be provided? What are the organisational conditions we need to put in place? What tools can we use? Who should be involved? What does it demand from support organisations and the communities? In other words: what does it take to support community management of water supplies.
Read more or download TP37_HowSupportCM_1.pdf (1.1 MB)
Community Water, Community Management
31 Dec 01
Community management has become the leading concept for implementing water supply systems in rural areas in developing countries. In the early days it was seen as the answer to large scale breakdown of water supply systems and the failure of government either to provide clean water itself or to devise a system whereby other agencies would supply it reliably and consistently.
Keep It Working: a field manual to support community management of rural water supply
31 Dec 00
This book will provide useful insights in the key issues related to community management of water supply.
Read more or download TP36_KeepItWorking.pdf (1.1 MB)
The Best of Two Worlds? Methodology for Participatory Assessment of Community Water Services
31 Dec 00
This book deals with the revolutionary Methodology for Participatory Assessment (MPA) developed with the World Bank Water and Sanitation Program (WSP).
Read more or download TP38_ BestTwoWorlds.pdf (2.3 MB)
The Seventh Video on Community Water Supply Management
31 Dec 00
This 15-minute video presentation is an appeal to decision-makers to support rural communities in their efforts to manage their water supplies.
Pani-Water
31 Dec 00
This 28-minute video presentation in Nepali (with English subtitles) shows the very lively discussions between the inhabitants of the rural Nepali village, Lele, about the daily problems of their water supply system and its management.
