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The impacts of community-based water development projects on rural poverty among small-holder farmers: Evidence from the Ewaso Ng’iro North Catchment Area, Kenya
Cogent Economics & Finance Pub Date : 2021-03-12 , DOI: 10.1080/23322039.2021.1882763
Simon Ng’ang’a Mwaura 1 , Isaac Maina Kariuki 2 , Simon Kiprop 3 , Augustus Sammy Muluvi 3 , Gideon Obare 2 , Boniface Kiteme 4
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Abstract

The main challenge with respect to water in the rural setting, lies in access, control and management. Collective action has been taken up following the International Water Management (IWM) principles and institutionalized in the Kenyan legal framework through water resource users’ associations (WRUAs). We carried out this study to assess whether this collective action has any impact on household poverty using objective poverty measures (consumption and income), a subjective poverty measure and a water poverty measure. We used 2019 household survey data of 652 randomly selected rural households from the Upper Ewaso Ng’iro North Catchment Area. We employed the full information maximum likelihood endogenous probit regression model to obtain the impact of WRUA membership on household poverty status. We find that collective water management can have welfare improving impacts for rural households, especially where there low public investments in water provision, management and access. We recommend that WRUAs be empowered through financial, legal and capacity building interventions to enhance their community impacts.



中文翻译:

基于社区的水利开发项目对小农户农村贫困的影响:肯尼亚Ewaso Ng'iro North集水区的证据

摘要

农村地区水的主要挑战在于获取,控制和管理。遵循国际水管理(IWM)原则采取了集体行动,并通过水资源使用者协会(WRUAs)在肯尼亚法律框架中将其制度化。我们进行了这项研究,以评估该集体行动是否使用客观贫困指标(消费和收入),主观贫困指标和水贫困指标对家庭贫困产生了影响。我们使用了来自Ewaso Ng'iro北部集水区上游的652个随机选择的农村家庭的2019年家庭调查数据。我们采用了完整的信息最大似然内生概率回归模型来获得WRUA成员资格对家庭贫困状况的影响。我们发现,集体水管理可以为农村家庭带来改善福利的影响,尤其是在供水,管理和获取的公共投资较少的地方。我们建议通过财务,法律和能力建设干预措施来赋予WRUA权力,以增强其对社区的影响。

更新日期:2021-03-12
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