afd-development-contexts/notes/uganda/2208161616_literature-water.md

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[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)

[x] Logie2021 - Resource scarcity and sexual/gender based violence

  • experiment in Bidi Bidi refugee settlement regarding gender based violence against girls/young women
  • experience higher levels of viol. as food, water, firewood scarcity increases

[ ] Calderon-Villarreal2022

  • cross-sectional study analyzing water, sanitation, hygiene access (WASH) services in refugee populations in Uganda, Kenya, Bangladesh, South Sudan
  • finds that most households overall had access to improved water (95%), they had low levels of access to waste disposal facility (64%), sanitation privacy (63%), very low access to basic sanitation (30%) and hand hygiene facility (24%)
  • households with disabled or elderly members or fewer members had poorer access to WASH
  • large inequalities between refugee sites and across countries:
    • Kyangwali refugee camp only 67% of refugees have access to improved water, and 46% of improved sanitation service facilities; sanitation privacy at only 8%
    • other Uganda camps fare better
    • 83% (or 87? re-read!) access to improved water supply in Ugandan refugee camps - seems too high compared to average access?

[ ] Kyozira2021 - integration of UNHCR Refugee health information system into national health management system of Uganda