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Community based natural resource management, tourism and poverty alleviation in southern Africa: what works and what doesn’t work
(David Publishers, http://www.davidpublishing.com, 2013)
Community based natural resource management (CBNRM) is perhaps the most important tool for driving community and rural development in southern Africa. The paper therefore analyses the CBNRM framework as a strategy for ...
The challenges of supplying water to small, scattered communities in the Lower Okavango Basin (LOB), Ngamiland, Botswana: An evaluation of government policy and performance
(Elsevier, www.elsevier.com/locate/pce, 2007)
Supplying adequate water and sanitation facilities to small, scattered rural communities and/or large, fast growing settlements in
remote areas is a challenge not easily met anywhere in the world. This article focuses on ...
Dissonance in customary and statutory water management institutions: issues of cultural diversity in the management of water resources in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(Springer; https://link.springer.com, 2018-01-30)
Customary institutions have existed in parallel with statutory institutions for
many years in Africa. These traditional water management systems were employed to
manage the use of water resources and resolve conflicts ...
Institutions and water governance in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(Taylor & Francis Online, https://www.tandfonline.com, 2018-11-10)
The goals of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) can be achieved by embracing the principles of distributive governance, which places both customary and statutory water institutions on the same pedestal in the ...
Claims and counterclaims: institutional arrangements and farmers response to the delivery and adoption of innovations in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(Taylor & Francis Online, https://www.tandfonline.com, 2017)
Purpose: This article examined how institutional factors influencing the promotion of two elephant crop-raiding deterrent innovations (ECDIs) introduced to farmers through a ministry-based extension system in the Okavango ...
Institutional factors engendering dissonance between customary and statutory institutions in water access in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(Springer Link; https://link.springer.com/, 2020-10-15)
The pervasive entrenchment of Western traditions in Africa continues to fuel the contradiction existing between customary and statutory water institutions on the continent. The paper addresses factors promoting the discord ...
"They don’t read meters, they only bring bills’: Issues surrounding the installation of prepaid water meters in Karoi town, Zimbabwe
(Taylor & Francis Online, https://www.tandfonline.com, 2019-11-20)
City and town administrators in Zimbabwe continue to push for the installation of prepaid water meters (PWMs). This is despite the residents' objections to the proposal. The merits and demerits of PWMs continue to be ...