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Access to water in a Nairobi slum: women’s work and institutional learning

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  • Odaba, Edmond

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This paper describes the ways that households, and particularly women, experience water scarcity in a large informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya, through heavy expenditures of time and money, considerable investments in water storage and routinized sequences of defer red household tasks. It then delineates three phases of adaptive water and social engineering undertaken in several informal settlements by the Nairobi Water Company in an ongoing attempt to construct effective municipal institutions and infrastructure to improve residential access to water and loosen the grip that informal vendors may have on the market for water in these localities.

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  • Crow, Ben D & Odaba, Edmond, 2010. "Access to water in a Nairobi slum: women’s work and institutional learning," Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, Working Paper Series qt7h52n89v, Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, UC Santa Cruz.
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    2. Richard Franceys & Almud Weitz, 2003. "Public-private community partnerships in infrastructure for the poor," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 15(8), pages 1083-1098.
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