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Hidden crisis project: in-depth qualitative social science survey of community water management arrangements in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Uganda 2017-2018 (NERC grant NE/M008606/1)

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. The Hidden Crisis Survey 2 dataset is the major dataset developed by the project. A social science and physical science survey were conducted in tandem, examining the physical waterpoint and the arrangement the community had devised for managing it. The detailed physical and social science datasets developed by the survey were intended to be used to: better understand the multi-faceted factors which underlie water source failure, their everyday governance arrangements, and to explore the inter-relations between the water point governance arrangements, engineering choice and performance, and groundwater resource conditions. The social science survey moved beyond the more standard preoccupation with examining waterpoint committees (a focus on form) to instead examine context-specific water management arrangements (based on the functions needed for sustainable and equitable management). The survey produced a detailed social science dataset of the arrangements communities have devised for managing their waterpoint across 150 sites in Ethiopia, Malawi and Uganda, surveyed in 2017 and the early part of 2018 (fieldwork was staggered across the three project countries to time with their dry seasons). The findings challenge many of the normative assumptions in the literature about community based management of water and help to move the debate on to more productive areas of enquiry.

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Date (Creation)
2021-07-29
Citation identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607791
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British Geological Survey

Enquiries

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

Distributor

British Geological Survey

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enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

Principal investigator

British Geological Survey

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British Geological Survey

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not available

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

  • Water supply

  • NGDC Deposited Data

  • Water resources

  • Social sciences

dataCentre
  • NGDC Deposited Data
Keywords
  • NERC_DDC

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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.

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Either: (i) the dataset is made freely available, e.g. via the Internet, for a restricted category of use (e.g. educational use only); or (ii) the dataset has not been formally approved by BGS for access and use by external clients under licence, but its use may be permitted under alternative formal arrangements; or (iii) the dataset contains 3rd party data or information obtained by BGS under terms and conditions that must be consulted in order to determine the permitted usage of the dataset. Refer to the BGS staff member responsible for the creation of the dataset if further advice is required. He / she should be familiar with the composition of the dataset, particularly with regard to 3rd party IPR contained in it, and any resultant use restrictions. This staff member should revert to the IPR Section ( ipr@bgs.ac.uk) for advice, should the position not be clear.

Language
English
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Begin date
2017-03-01
End date
2018-06-30

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No information provided.
Distribution format
Name Version

NIVIVO files (.nvp)

Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

Distributor
Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Geological Survey

Enquiries

not available

Distributor
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item167295

Data

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/854314/

UK Data Service

Hierarchy level
Non geographic dataset
Other

non geographic dataset

Conformance result

Title

INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology

Date (Publication)
2011
Explanation

See the referenced specification

Pass
No

Conformance result

Title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

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

Pass
No
Statement

Community surveys were undertaken between 2017 and 2018 across 150 sites in Ethiopia, Malawi and Uganda (fieldwork was staggered across the three project countries to time with their dry seasons). The survey produced a detailed social science dataset of the arrangements communities have devised for managing their waterpoint across the 150 sites. In addition more detailed longitudinal studies were undertaken a much smaller number of sites (10) across Malawi and Uganda for 12 months in the same time period.

Metadata

File identifier
c8cc33e8-4ab7-08ea-e054-002128a47908 XML
Metadata language
English
Hierarchy level
Non geographic dataset
Hierarchy level name

non geographic dataset

Date stamp
2025-05-06
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Geological Survey

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

Point of contact
Dataset URI

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607791

 
 

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