

@mastersthesis {6870,
	title = {Financing potable water supply services in rural areas: challenges, approaches and lessons from the {PAGER} experience in {Morocco}},
	year = {2008},
	note = {U587347},
	school = {University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies (United Kingdom)},
	type = {phdPh.{D}.},
	address = {Ann Arbor},
	abstract = {The study analyses the financing of Morocco{\textquestiondown}s PAGER programme with a view to increasing our understanding of how potable rural water supply ({\textquoteleft}PRWS{\textquestiondown}) can be financed. Financing is a primary obstacle to increasing access to water supply services, in particular to achieving the 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving the number of people without adequate access to water supply. The study shows how the financing of PRWS is best understood through a de-emphasis of the idea of the conventional rules of finance. It argues that the focus should be on social and political contexts and non-financial resources. The analysis deploys social theory, cultural theory and politics. The question of {\textquoteleft}how finance can be mobilised for water supply{\textquestiondown} is a broad question. It encompasses the notions of how much finance is required, what sources of finance can realistically be used to finance PRWS, and how these sources of finance can be mobilised. The study addresses these narrower questions as a means of providing greater understanding of the broad question of how finance can be mobilised for PRWS. Firstly, it does this in terms of how sources of finance can be mobilised, and shows how, in the case of PAGER, a convergence of interest in solving an immediate and unacceptable situation created the impetus to mobilise finance for PRWS. Secondly, it is shown how a limited range of sources of finance can realistically be used to finance PRWS. In order to be successfully used to finance PRWS, it is shown how sources of finance need to be accessible to PRWS projects, financially feasible for those who are expected to pay for them and compatible with the delivery of effective water supply services. Thirdly, the study shows how the cost of PRWS provision is highly variable. It demonstrates how the financial costs of PRWS delivery can be minimised in specific circumstances through the substitution of labour and administrative contributions. Finally, the study shows how water users are pivotal to the financing of PRWS in PAGER.},
	keywords = {(UMI)AAIU587347, 0454:Management, Bibliographies, management, Psychology{\textendash}Abstracting, Social sciences, Statistics},
	url = {http://search.proquest.com/docview/1415221141?accountid=14270},
	author = {Dalton, G M}
}
