Identification

Title

Hidden crisis project: studies of community water management in Malawi and Uganda 2017-2018 (NERC Grant NE/M008606/1)

Abstract

In developing countries, the dominant model for managing rural water supplies is a community-level association or committee. Although a relative paucity of evidence exists to support this model, it continues to exert a strong pull on policy makers. This project examines everyday water governance arrangements, situating these in the exigencies of wider village life and over the course of changing seasons. The data highlights the social embeddedness of water governance, and challenges the dominant 'associational model' of community based management. In none of the 12 sites do we observe a fully formed committee functioning as it should according to policy. Instead, water management arrangements are typically comprised by one or a small number of key individuals from the community, who may or may not be part of a waterpoint committee.

Resource type

nonGeographicDataset

Resource locator

https://reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/854316/

name: UK Data Service

function: download

https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item167296

name: Data

function: information

Unique resource identifier

code

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607792

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

geoscientificInformation

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

Social sciences

Water resources

Seasonal variation

Water supply

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2011

Keyword set

keyword value

NERC_DDC

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

East bounding longitude

North bounding latitude

South bounding latitude

Extent

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

1979

code identifying the extent

MALAWI [id=679000]

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2009

code identifying the extent

MW

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2009

code identifying the extent

MWI

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2009

code identifying the extent

UG

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2009

code identifying the extent

UGA

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

1979

code identifying the extent

UGANDA [id=689000]

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2017-06-01

End position

2018-06-01

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2021-07-29

Frequency of update

notApplicable

Quality and validity

Lineage

Detailed longitudinal community studies were undertaken between 2017 and 2018 across 12 sites in Malawi and Uganda. This produced a detailed social science dataset of the arrangements communities have devised for managing their waterpoints.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2011

degree

false

explanation

See the referenced specification

Conformity report

specification

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

false

explanation

See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

Data format

name of format

NVIVO file (.nvp)

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

British Geological Survey

full postal address

The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South

EDINBURGH

EH14 4AP

United Kingdom

telephone number

0115 936 3142

facsimile number

0115 936 3276

email address

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

responsible party role

distributor

Responsible party

organisation name

British Geological Survey

full postal address

The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South

EDINBURGH

EH14 4AP

United Kingdom

telephone number

0115 936 3142

facsimile number

0115 936 3276

email address

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

responsible party role

principalInvestigator

Responsible party

organisation name

British Geological Survey

email address

not available

responsible party role

distributor

Responsible party

organisation name

British Geological Survey

email address

not available

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

British Geological Survey

full postal address

The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South

EDINBURGH

EH14 4AP

United Kingdom

telephone number

+44 131 667 1000

email address

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2023-03-22

Metadata language