

@mastersthesis {6342,
	title = {Participatory evaluation of community-based water and sanitation programs: {The} case of central {Tanzania}},
	year = {2002},
	note = {3052584},
	school = {Kansas State University},
	type = {phdPh.{D}.},
	address = {Ann Arbor},
	abstract = {Increasingly, community participation and management is considered important in ensuring sustainability of community water utility projects. In return, improved access to clean water is important in poverty alleviation strategies, can help in relieving drudgery for women, and greatly improve work productivity in tasks such as agriculture (i.e., through time saved and potentially improved health). Data were collected from two community water utility projects of central Tanzania. Economic profitability assessment, production efficiency and willingness to pay analyses were used to assess the performance of the village level programs. Spatial Tobit models were used to estimate the influence of community participation and management on the economic efficiency of the projects. Canonical correlation analysis techniques were used to establish the importance of the link between community participation and management, and sustainability. The results indicate that village level projects were economically attractive. The calculated internal rate of returns were 47\% for the Dodoma Region and 21\% for the Singida Region. Nevertheless, the productive efficiency analysis results indicated that water supply could be increased by 49\% and 61\% by projects in Dodoma and Singida if they were economically efficient. In both regions, respondents were willing to increase the tariff or user fee by more than 100\% to pay for desired improvements in water supply. There is a general need to improve women{\textquoteright}s participation in the operation of the projects, to seek greater involvement of the community in the management of the projects, and a need to improve project gross margins through cost minimization. The results from the spatial Tobit models indicate that future programs in terms of location should be based on population (water demand) rather than village boundaries in order to take advantage of economies of scale. The advantage of using canonical correlation analysis is that the analytical technique lends itself to indicating what needs to be done in specific villages/clusters to improve community participation and management, and hence sustainability.},
	keywords = {0503:Agricultural economics, Agricultural economics, Community development, Community-based, Participatory evaluation, Rates of return, Social sciences, Studies, Tanzania, Water and sanitation programs, Water utilities},
	url = {http://search.proquest.com/docview/305559668?accountid=14270},
	author = {Kaliba, Aloyce R M}
}
