Akosua Sarpong Boakye-Ansah

Pro-Poor Strategies in Urban Water Provisioning

What Kenyan Water Utilities Do and Why They Do It

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how water utilities mobilize pro-poor strategies to address the challenge of ensuring universal access in cities with rapidly expanding unplanned settlements. It goes beyond ideological discussions to examine actual water service provisioning practices, identifying with those responsible: water utilities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 130
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 170mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9780367705114
• ISBN-10: 0367705117
• Artikelnr.: 69894312

Autorenporträt

Akosua Sarpong Boakye-Ansah holds a Bachelor's degree in Laboratory Technology from the University of Cape-Coast, Ghana and a Master's degree (cum laude) in Water Management from the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education (formerly UNESCO-IHE Delft Institute for Water Education). Between the periods of 2007 and 2015, she worked with the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) first as Chemist/Bacteriologist in a Central Water Laboratory and then as a Process Chemist for the Barekese treatment works, in the Ashanti region of Ghana. In this capacity, she was responsible for the treatment of water and ensuring the overall quality of water treated on the plant. In 2015, she started her PhD research with the Water Governance department of the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education. Her research formed part of the project, Performance Enhancement of Water Utilities in Kenya through benchmarking, collective learning and innovative financing (PEWAK). As a practitioner, she is experienced in drinking and wastewater treatment, water quality assessment and water distribution. As a researcher, she is interested in social, political, institutional and governance aspects of water services and has been involved in research in different countries including Ghana, Malawi and Kenya.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Literature review, Aligning Stakeholder Interests: How
'Appropriate Technologies' Have Become the Accepted Water Infrastructure
Solutions for Low-Income Areas in Kenya, From Rowdy Cartels To Organized
Ones? The Transfer of Power in Urban Water Supply in Kenya, The Pragmatism
of Adopting Pre-Paid Water Dispensers: Insights from Two Kenyan Water
Utilities, The Appropriateness of 'Appropriate Technologies' in Improving
Access to Utility Water in Urban Low-Income Areas: Evidence from Kenya,
Conclusion.