Institutions put to the test : Community-based water management in Namibia during a drought

摘要: Abstract In Namibia, rural water governance has changed profoundly during the last two decades. Today, in many communities, user associations administer and set rules for management practices. Their typically define boundaries specify contributions that vary members outsiders. When rains failed 2012–14, mobility of people herds increased put newly formed institutional regimes to a critical test. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork seven we examine whether how were either altered or applied. The results indicate cultural models kinship reciprocity took priority over formal agreements drought. Non-adherence formalized practices excluding outsiders also expresses certain resistance interpretation as an economic good.