Category: Risks and Institutional Responses for Poverty Reduction in Rural Africa
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UPGro win at Stockholm World Water Week
Patrick Thomson, from the Oxford-led UPGro project “Gro For Good”, has won the prize for the best poster at World Water Week 2015 for the work that he and colleagues at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Oxford have been doing on shallow groundwater monitoring using Smart Handpumps in Kenya. This work will continue under…
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Groundwater Governance
10th March 2015 Two presentations followed extensive discussion. Groundwater risks and institutional responses in Kwale, Kenya (Jacob Katuva, Oxford University) and From Codes of Practice to a Code of Conduct – groundwater governance in Kenya from a drillers perspective (Tom Armstrong, JB Drilling). Practical issues of borehole design and construction, groundwater quality, gender and poverty…
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Poster presentations about work in Zambia and Kenya (Video)
At the IAH Congress, we asked two of the UPGro researchers to present their posters: Jacob Mutua, Rural Focus Ltd, Kenya, describing the “Risks and Institutional Responses for Poverty Reduction in Rural Africa” Catalyst project Dr Dan Lapworth talks about the project that he has been leading: “Mapping groundwater quality degradation beneath growing rural towns…
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New report: From Rights to Results in Rural Water Services – Evidence from Kyuso, Kenya
From the Catalyst Project team for Risks and Institutional Responses for Poverty Reduction in Rural Africa has come a new report: From Rights to Results in Rural Water Services – Evidence from Kyuso, Kenya “Institutional transformations are required if Africa is to deliver the universal Human Right to Water to 275 million rural people without…
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