Restoring the commons: a gendered analysis of customary water tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa
Customary water tenure in low-and middle-income rural areas has received limited academic, policy, and legal attention as yet. This paper seeks to conceptualize and analyse gender-differentiated living customary water tenure, focusing on sub-Saharan Africa. Extensive literature review suggests four...
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2023
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| author | van Koppen, Barbara |
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| description | Customary water tenure in low-and middle-income rural areas has received limited academic, policy, and legal attention as yet. This paper seeks to conceptualize and analyse gender-differentiated living customary water tenure, focusing on sub-Saharan Africa. Extensive literature review suggests four gendered domains: first, water needs and uses; second, strategies to meet those needs by directly accessing water sources, and, with increasing wealth by investing individually or collectively in water infrastructure for self-supply, creating infrastructure-related ‘commons’ in the case of collective systems; third, at community scale, the ‘sharing in’ of communities’ naturally available water resources that flow into infrastructure; and, fourth, ‘sharing out’ of those resources with neighbouring communities but also powerful third parties of foreign and national high impact users. Rendering the gendered community more visible as the main agent to manage its water resources as the commons provides evidence for a range of policies, laws and interventions, including gender equitable and community-led water infrastructure development integrating domestic and productive spheres; strengthening customary arrangements to share water resources as a commons within a community or with neighbouring communities, and the long overdue formal protection of customary water tenure against ‘water grabs’ by powerful third parties. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1291172024-03-22T10:24:39Z Restoring the commons: a gendered analysis of customary water tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa van Koppen, Barbara water tenure customary tenure gender analysis women men legal pluralism water resources infrastructure water sharing commons Customary water tenure in low-and middle-income rural areas has received limited academic, policy, and legal attention as yet. This paper seeks to conceptualize and analyse gender-differentiated living customary water tenure, focusing on sub-Saharan Africa. Extensive literature review suggests four gendered domains: first, water needs and uses; second, strategies to meet those needs by directly accessing water sources, and, with increasing wealth by investing individually or collectively in water infrastructure for self-supply, creating infrastructure-related ‘commons’ in the case of collective systems; third, at community scale, the ‘sharing in’ of communities’ naturally available water resources that flow into infrastructure; and, fourth, ‘sharing out’ of those resources with neighbouring communities but also powerful third parties of foreign and national high impact users. Rendering the gendered community more visible as the main agent to manage its water resources as the commons provides evidence for a range of policies, laws and interventions, including gender equitable and community-led water infrastructure development integrating domestic and productive spheres; strengthening customary arrangements to share water resources as a commons within a community or with neighbouring communities, and the long overdue formal protection of customary water tenure against ‘water grabs’ by powerful third parties. 2023-02-06 2023-02-28T16:53:22Z 2023-02-28T16:53:22Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/129117 en Open Access Ubiquity Press, Ltd. van Koppen, Barbara. 2023. Restoring the commons: a gendered analysis of customary water tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa. International Journal of the Commons, 17(1):1-11. [doi: https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1164] |
| spellingShingle | water tenure customary tenure gender analysis women men legal pluralism water resources infrastructure water sharing commons van Koppen, Barbara Restoring the commons: a gendered analysis of customary water tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| title | Restoring the commons: a gendered analysis of customary water tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| title_full | Restoring the commons: a gendered analysis of customary water tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| title_fullStr | Restoring the commons: a gendered analysis of customary water tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Restoring the commons: a gendered analysis of customary water tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| title_short | Restoring the commons: a gendered analysis of customary water tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| title_sort | restoring the commons a gendered analysis of customary water tenure in sub saharan africa |
| topic | water tenure customary tenure gender analysis women men legal pluralism water resources infrastructure water sharing commons |
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