Building the role of local government authorities towards the achievement of the human right to water in rural Tanzania. Alejandro Jim�nez. 2010; Natural Resources Forum - Wiley InterScience

Building the role of local government authorities towards the achievement of the human right to water in rural Tanzania. Alejandro Jim�nez. 2010; Natural Resources Forum - Wiley InterScience: "In recent decades, many changes have occurred in the approach to financing and operating water services in developing countries. The demand-responsive approach is now adopted in many countries in a context of donor-supported decentralization processes, which gives more responsibility to end users. However, the government's responsibility at different levels is enforced by the international recognition of the human right to water. This paper examines specific actions that build the role of local government authorities in this scenario. A collaboration between an international NGO and a rural district in Tanzania from 2006 to 2009 is used as an action research case study that is representative of local capacity-building needs in decentralized contexts and rural areas"