Community-based Solid Waste Management and Water Supply Projects

J. Anschütz (1995)

This literature review aims to analyse community-based solid waste management projects and compare them with community-based water supply projects in order to identify common lessons and key points for their success. The document focuses on social and management problems of both kinds of projects and ways to solve them.

Community participation has been defined as a whole spectrum of activities with different levels of involvement. These activities range from the contribution of cash and labour to a project, to involvement in consultation processes and bringing about changes to local practices all the way to a day-to-day involvement in administration, management and decision-making.

Projects defined as community management generally suggest community involvement in decision-making. In this study, community management is defined as the situation in which a community takes responsibility for, obtains authority over and carries out control, operation, management and maintenance of a service benefiting its members. It does not mean that a community is responsible for every aspect of a service since partnerships with governmental agencies and NGOs are often a feature of these projects.

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