Institutions

REACH Global Strategy 2020-2024

REACH’s global research and impact strategy recognises our progress to date, and provides a roadmap for improving water security for 10 million people by 2024.

Book chapter: Rural Water Policy in Africa and Asia

In this book chapter, the authors argue for an increase in investments in designing and testing emerging institutional models for rural water services to evaluate the trade‐offs in performance across institutional, financial and operational dimensions.

Rethinking the economics of rural water in Africa

Rural Africa lags behind global progress to provide safe drinking water to everyone. This paper explores why rural water is different for communities, schools, and healthcare facilities across characteristics of scale, institutions, demand, and finance.

Hybrid water rights systems for pro-poor water governance in Africa

This study, based in Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe, explores the implications of permit systems for both the most vulnerable and the state, and, identifies options for pro-poor water legislation that also meet the water governance requirements of the state.

A cultural theory of drinking water risks, values and institutional change

This Policy Brief, based on an article by Koehler et al (2018), explores how drinking water risks are managed in rural Africa and considers pluralist institutional arrangements that enable risks and responsibilities to be re-conceptualised and re-allocated between the state, market and communities to create value for rural water users.

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