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Have Five Decades of Development Engineering Research Improved Sanitation in Southern Africa?

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In developed countries, public health engineering has been closely associated with extensions of life expectancy and declines in infant mortality well beyond the contributions of medicine. However, different approaches have had to be taken in poorer countries. This paper uses cases from South and Southern Africa to illustrate the challenges and the responses and to consider whether these reflect a formal ‘development engineering’ approach. While external agencies have actively promoted a variety of approaches, engineered interventions were most successful where they took account of social, economic and environmental contexts, reflected local preferences and were developed by, or in close coordination with, the operational institutions concerned. © 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • Mike Muller, 2020. "Have Five Decades of Development Engineering Research Improved Sanitation in Southern Africa?," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 32(1), pages 96-111, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:jintdv:v:32:y:2020:i:1:p:96-111
    DOI: 10.1002/jid.3452
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    1. Revilla, Ma. Laarni D. & Qu, Fangqi & Seetharam, K E & Rao, Bhanoji, 2021. "“Sanitation” in the Top Development Journals: A Review," ADBI Working Papers 1253, Asian Development Bank Institute.
    2. Valette, Héloïse & Colon, Marine, 2024. "Institutional change for the development of urban sanitation in the Global South: A social science review," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).
    3. Héloïse Valette & Marine Colon, 2024. "Institutional change for the development of urban sanitation in the Global South: A social science review," Post-Print hal-04561473, HAL.

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