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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.author Simon Ng’ang’a Mwaura , Isaac Maina Kariuki , Simon Kiprop , Augustus Sammy Muluvi , Gideon Obare and Boniface Kiteme
dc.date.accessioned 2024-02-08T09:26:55Z
dc.date.available 2024-02-08T09:26:55Z
dc.date.issued 2021
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/15092
dc.description.abstract The 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.Subjects: Agriculture & Environmental Sciences; Environment & Resources; Sustainable Development; Rural Development; Economics; Environmental Economics Keywords: Objective poverty; subjective poverty; water poverty; collective action; rural poverty; Upper Ewaso Ng’iro North Catchment en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.title 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 en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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