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X Agua para Todos: Water for All--Cortnie Shupe and Julia Steets
X Agua para Todos: Water for All--Cortnie Shupe and Julia Steets
Pages 77-80
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Partner incentives for participating in the initiative varied from partner entity to entity, ranging from the combination of social goals and profit to increased political legitimacy and self-help. Agua para Todos emerged out of the extremely difficult political situation that succeeded the ‘water wars' in Cochabamba.
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While formal monitoring and evaluation processes are currently lacking, regular, informal controlling practices do exist, including structural checks and balances for partnership activities. For example, Agua Tuya is responsible for most operational activities while the Municipality controls the evaluation of these activities.
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External factors that presented an opportunity for success included high demand for the partnership product within the affected community; customer willingness to pay for the price of the product; existing strong community mobilization and organization; and enabling legislation. Likewise, factors hindering progress in the partnership were identified: insufficient guidelines on responsibilities; frequent staff turnover within partner organizations; and difficulties acquiring the guarantees necessary for water committees to take out loans for the construction of a water system.
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