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The impacts of community-based water development projects on rural poverty among small-holder farmers: Evidence from the Ewaso Ng’iro North Catchment Area, Kenya

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dc.contributor.authorMwaura, Simon Ng’ang’a
dc.contributor.authorMaina Kariuki, Isaac
dc.contributor.authorKiprop, Simon
dc.contributor.authorMuluvi, Augustus Sammy
dc.contributor.authorObare, Gideon
dc.contributor.authorKiteme, Boniface
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-06T12:15:15Z
dc.date.available2024-03-06T12:15:15Z
dc.date.issued2021-03-12
dc.description.abstractThe main challenge with respect to water in the rural setting, lies in access, control and management. Collective action has been taken up following the International Water Management (IWM) principles and institutionalized in the Kenyan legal framework through water resource users’ associations (WRUAs). We carried out this study to assess whether this collective action has any impact on household poverty using objective poverty measures (consumption and income), a subjective poverty measure and a water poverty measure. We used 2019 household survey data of 652 randomly selected rural households from the Upper Ewaso Ng’iro North Catchment Area. We employed the full information maximum likelihood endogenous probit regression model to obtain the impact of WRUA membership on household poverty status. We find that collective water management can have welfare improving impacts for rural households, especially where there low public investments in water provision, management and access. We recommend that WRUAs be empowered through financial, legal and capacity building interventions to enhance their community impacts.
dc.description.sponsorshipEgerton University , The Centre for Training and Integrated Research in ASAL Development (CETRAD) and the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC)
dc.identifier.citationSimon Ng’ang’a Mwaura, Isaac Maina Kariuki, Simon Kiprop, Augustus Sammy Muluvi, Gideon Obare & Boniface Kiteme | Muhammad Shafiullah (Reviewing editor) (2021) The impacts of community-based water development projects on rural poverty among small-holder farmers: Evidence from the Ewaso Ng’iro North Catchment Area, Kenya, Cogent Economics & Finance, 9:1, DOI: 10.1080/23322039.2021.1882763
dc.identifier.issnhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23322039.2021.1882763
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dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.nrf.go.ke/handle/123456789/699
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherCogent Economics & Finance
dc.subjectMaasai Mara University
dc.titleThe impacts of community-based water development projects on rural poverty among small-holder farmers: Evidence from the Ewaso Ng’iro North Catchment Area, Kenya
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