Water and Aid in Mozambique

Gendered Perspectives of Change

AvEmily Van Houweling

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Analysing how water development projects unfolded in five rural communities in Mozambique, Emily Van Houweling offers an alternative perspective on water and the politicised nature of water management in the region. Using a hydro-social cycle framework, she demonstrates how water is tied to everyday life in matrilineal Nampula and how social relations, gender roles, and local politics were reconfigured during the project. While centring the experience of community members, Van Houweling also includes the perspectives of project implementers, showing how project plans were translated and negotiated as they worked their way down to the community. Employing the concept of organisational culture, Van Houweling reveals the tensions that resulted from different actors' decision-making processes and motivations, and illuminates possible explanations for the gaps between policy and practice. Exploring women's empowerment, community ownership, and participation, this book facilitates innovative ways for thinking about evaluation, sustainability, and gender-water relations.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-09-05
Mått:151 x 228 x 13 mm
Vikt:370 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:The International African Library
Antal sidor:242
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009193498

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Afrikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Politik och statsskick inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Emily Van Houweling is an associate professor in the Master of Development Practice program at Regis University. Her research blends anthropology, gender studies, political ecology, and critical development studies to contribute new insights about water and sanitation access and rights in low-income contexts. Her 15 years of experience on the topic span the academic and practitioner divide. Van Houweling' s work has been published in journals such as Society and Natural Resources, Gender, Place and Culture, and the Journal of Development Studies, and she has also contributed to making water and sanitation projects more inclusive and participatory.

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'Yet more evidence that the aid industry seems unable to listen to local people - the supposed 'beneficiaries' - and instead imposes simplistic technical and economic solutions and repeats decades-old mistakes. This book shows that not only have donors and lenders not learned, but they are going backwards.' Joseph Hanlon, The Open University

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction; 2. Divergent development discourses; 3. Life before the handpumps; 4. Sustainability and sense of ownership; 5. The politics of water access; 6. Gender roles and water practices with the handpumps; 7. Development encounters; 8. Conclusions; Glossary; Bibliography.