Community Water Supply in Developing Countries: Lessons from Experience. Evaluation Summaries and Conference Findings

摘要

Because efforts to improve rural water supplies in developing countries have faced increasing criticism and declining donor interest in recent years, A.I.D. began in 1979 a 3-year effort to analyze its experience with community water supply projects. From 1979-1982, 15 projects funded by A.I.D. and other donors in Kenya, Korea, Panama, Peru, Tanzania, Thailand, and Tunisia were evaluated in terms of the water systems' reliability, benefits, and accessibility. This report presents the full proceedings and recommendations of a 1982 conference held to discuss the results of these field evaluations.