Fwd: New Paper Published on Community-Based Well Maintenance in Rural Haiti

[Luca Palazzotto]

Chers partenaires,

 

L'article ci-dessous nous offre des elements de reflexions assez interessant sur l'approche communautaire de Haiti Outreach pour la gestion des points d'eau.

 

Bon lecture.

 

Luca

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dimitri Papadimitriou <poha...@jen-npo.org>
Date: Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 4:10 PM
Subject: New Paper Published on Community-Based Well Maintenance in Rural Haiti
To: Luca Palazzotto <lpala...@unicef.org>
Cc: Dionissi Aliprantis <dion...@gmail.com>

Hi Luca,

 

Coincidently I received an e-mail from Dionissi Aliprantis, the researcher I talked you about yesterday. He has just published an article on Community-Based Well Maintenance in Rural Haiti that may be very interesting to forward to the wash-cluster...@googlegroups.com

 

Please find the link below:

 

http://idbdocs.iadb.org/WSDocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=36450832

 

Abstract: The international community has pledged 11 billion dollars to Haiti, a country

where non-governmental organizations (NGOs) provide nearly all public goods and services. This

raises at least two questions: How can NGOs most effectively perform their own work, and how

can NGOs integrate their programs into broader efforts organized by public institutions? This

paper addresses these questions by evaluating the community-based model of Haiti Outreach (HO)

that focuses on training communities to manage wells after they have been constructed. The effect

of this management training is identified by comparing the outcomes of HO’s wells with a control

group of wells that were refurbished by HO in the aftermath of the January 12, 2010 earthquake but

then subsequently managed by other groups. Wells managed under the community-based approach

are 8.7 percentage points more likely to be functioning after only one year. We also propose a

social planner’s problem to quantify the tradeoff between equity and efficiency created by user fees

that may be applied to many development programs. A social planner indifferent between standard

and community-based interventions has strong preferences for sporadically providing water to the

poorest members of a community at the expense of sustainably providing water to the majority

of community members. Policy-makers deciding between alternative interventions should also

 

See you tomorrow,

 

D.

 

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Luca Palazzotto
Unite de Coordination du Cluster WASH
Departement des Palmes, Nippes et Sud-est
Tel. +509 3764 9774
lpala...@unicef.org