Publications on scaling up

Overview of available publications, documents and a literature review on Scaling Up Community Management both from IRC and other sources.



Ensuring Sustained Beneficial Outcomes for Water and Sanitation Programmes in the Developing World

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.

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IRC publications on Scaling Up

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.

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Resources

Useful magazine articles, a literature review and other materials on scaling up.

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Documents

Documents on Scaling up Community Management other than available official IRC publications.

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Links

This folder contains links to non-IRC publications on the theme of scaling up community management of rural water supply.

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