Look Who's Talking. Explaining Water-Related Information Sharing and Demand for Action Among Ugandan Villagers.

摘要: Many national water policies propagate community-based participatory approaches to overcome weaknesses in supply-driven rural provision, operation, and maintenance. Citizen involvement is thought stimulate bottom-up accountability broaden the information base, which may enrich design implementation processes foster improved accessibility sustainability. Practices on ground, however, are embedded socio-political realities mediate possible beneficial effects of approaches. This paper builds full social network data collected a Ugandan village study political reality two distinct levels participation, i.e. local sharing among citizens more active appeal fellow improve services. We use Logistic Regression Quadratic Assignment Procedure explore what type actor traits influence whether same factors play demand for action remedy water-related problems. Whereas aspects (social support relations) homophily (using source, gender) an important role sharing, it educational level, particular, villager who called upon that when villagers action. Our findings also demonstrate those most need safe do not mobilize their ties indicates building practice exclusively locally existing fail capture needs deprived citizens.