### [x] Naiga2015 * looks at effects of major policy shift from supply-driven to demand-driven approach in rural water provision (in 1990) * results: * rural safe water coverage improved slightly * operation and maintenance of water sources pose great challenge, impeding long-term access to safe water * abrupt and top-down imposed policy created competing signals from old and new policies * lead to uncertainty and ambiguity about responsibilities, rules, incentives * challenge is not only water provision approach but provision of consistent multi-actor and -level governance structure tying to past institutions and providing long-term motivation for local water users to contribute to water provision * Isingiro results: * Uganda: access to improved water source 44% (1990), 60% (2004), 66% (2010) * Uganda: urban household travels 0.2km, rural 0.8km to source (avg waiting time half an hour) * Isingiro: average distance to source 1.5km * Isingiro: only 53% of water sources surveyed were functional * 24% partly functional (low/intermittent yield) * 18% non-functional * blocked drainage channels for some of them leading to possible contamination * qualitative: * water generally responsibility of women * cost of user fees prohibite for some to participate * technology and ability to repair were expensive and usually far away (spare parts, resulted in delayed repairs) ### [x] Cooper2016 * looks at vulnerability of rural farmers to climate events * results: * wealthier farmers perceive drought as highest risk, poorer farmers extreme heavy rainfall * generally implemented many anticipatory and livelihood coping responses (54.7%), like food storage, livestock maintenance, planting drought-resistant varieties * some responses (45.4%) specific to individual climatic events * had no response to cope with rainfall variability * environmental degradation additional driver of vulnerability: soil infertility, pests, diseases; economic instability * farmers with more land, education, access to gov extension, non-farm livelihood, larger households, older age more capacity to buffer shock (through increased assets and entitlements) * inequality arises due to different abilities to be resilient toward climatic shock events ### [x] Yikii2017 - food insecurity in wetlands area * looks at prevalence and determining factors of food insecurity in wetland adjacent areas, (Isingiro) * results: * ~93% of HHs in wetlands area food insecure * primary reasons: poverty, * low labor productivity (/unemployment) * low levels of education * HHs with fewer adult members more food secure than with more adults * HHs with more educated head more food secure than less education * requires govt promotion of: * food/nutrition education * income generating activities * drought resistant crop varieties * water conservation * or wetland degradation, malnutrition and income inequality may further rise ### [x] Mulogo2018 * looks at access to water, sanitation, hygiene at health care facilities * 2010, Isingiro had 28% access to safe water * main supply technologies are public stand posts, protected spring technology, deep boreholes * rain harvesting tanks, gravity flow schemes, in some cases groundwater-based pubped piped water supply system present * results: * of 282 health care facilities, 94% had improved sources (but some no improved source, some no source on the premises) ### [x] Naiga2018 - community-based water management * looks at relevant design principles in creating successful collective self-managed water management institutions, at Isingiro vs Sheema district * results: * difference in water infrastructure management effectiveness primarily down to existence/absence of organizational characteristics prescribed in design principles * Isingiro: absence of conditions prescribed by design principles due confronted with lack of sufficient self-governance arrangements: * unclear social boundaries * missing collective-choice arrangements * lack of sanctions or conflict resolution mechanisms * Isingiro: should be regarded as 'vicious circle of institutional failures' ### [x] Twongyirwe2019 - Perceived Food insecurity * looks at perception of drought and food insecurity in Isingiro district * questionnaire for farmers in Isingiro district whose livelihood is predominantly dependent on crop production * results: * 68.6% of HHs perceive food insecurity as problem * those not seeing it as problem had higher off-farm incomes and larger farm sizes * 'implies productive assets (e.g. land) can be easily translated into productive activies for higher income [...] while off-farm income could provide more choices in terms of food access' [9] * access to credit for crops *increased* food security status awareness * more likely to use credit as buffer against food insecurity * drought widely perceived as problem contributing to food insecurity (95.6%) * HHs believe most at-risk of drought-induced food insecurity * 13% reported to be 'doing nothing' to respond to drought effects ### [x] Nagasha2019 - effect of droughts on gender roles * looks at effect of climate change (more sever droughts) on gender roles around Lake Mburo National Park (Isingiro, Kiruhura districts) * results: * men and women's gender roles altered during extreme dryness * men played roles sequentially focusing on one single reproductive role * women played roles simultaneously * often forced to engage children in work activities to balance own workload * Isingiro: female children more engaged with chores than male children * in Kiruhura district migration in search of water & pasture livestick, further distorting roles * Isingiro: men became more actively engaged in firewood collection (62.8%) and fetching water (45.9%) * women's exclusion from land ownership brings them further in state of dependence, thus more vulnerable to climate change effects ### [x] Sempewo2021a * looks at changes in water supply use (quantity) in Ugandan HHs (due to COVID-19) * most HHs had increase in water quantity usage * associated HH characteristics age, sex, education, main occupation of HH head, household size, region of residence * results can be used for equitable water supply during emergencies ### [x] Sempewo2021 - willingness to pay for water during emergency * looks at willingness to pay for access to improved water during COVID-19 (lockdown) * results: * majority of households not willing to pay for water * sg explanatory variables: sex of HH head, region of residence, water source, number of times hands are washed, whether household already buys/pays for water * suggests increasing/even maintaining water revenue will be challenge in emergencies without addressing disparity in socio-economic attributes of HHs * INT: may also show possibility of one dimension of health inequality increase due to income inequality/poverty during emergency situations (e.g. extreme climate events) ### [x] Atamanov2022 - see poverty for main part * water access * general access to improved drinking water 87% urban, 74% rural (19/20); with only small amounts of inequality (75/74 rural poor/nonpoor; 76/90 poor/nonpoor) * but very little access to improved sanitation 39% urban, 25% urban; 19% rural poor, 29% nonpoor; 22% urban poor, 43% urban nonpoor (19/20)