Search Results - "constitutional right"

Addressing failed water infrastructure delivery through increased accountability and end-user agency: the case of the Sekhukhune District, South Africa by Hofstetter, Moritz, Bolding, A., van Koppen, Barbara

“…Despite progressive policies and a legal framework that includes the constitutional right to sufficient water, there are still enormous problems with water service delivery in low income rural South Africa. …”
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Gender equality and social inclusion in community-led multiple use water services in Nepal by van Koppen, Barbara, Raut, Manita, Rajouria, Alok, Khadka, Manohara, Pradhan, P., GC, Raj K., Colavito, L., O’Hara, C., Rautanen, S.-L., Nepal, P. R., Shrestha, P. K.

“…This realizes the constitutional right to food in line with the Nepal Water Resources Act, 1992, which prioritizes core minimum volumes of water for everyone’s domestic uses and many households’ irrigation. …”
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Priority General Authorisations in rights-based water use authorisation in South Africa by van Koppen, Barbara, Schreiner, B.

“…Via this tool all black small-scale users, including the poor, would obtain equal access to minimum quantities of water needed to progressively achieve constitutional rights to water, food, and non-discrimination, while the remaining water resources would be allocated to high-impact users through licences with strict and enforceable conditions.…”
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Modern economic theory and the challenge of embedded tenure institutions: African attempts to reform local forest policies by Diaw, C.

“…Two philosophical principles giving rise to three constitutional rights and four appropriations regimes make up its structure, while dynamic access and transformation rules govern the interlocking and transmutations of appropriation regimes across space and time. …”
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