Strengthening rural community water safety planning in Pacific Island countries: evidence and lessons from Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and Fiji.
Pacific Island Countries
Water safety planning (WSP)
capacity development
collective action
community facilitation
drinking water management
Journal
Journal of water and health
ISSN: 1477-8920
Titre abrégé: J Water Health
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101185420
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Mar 2024
Mar 2024
Historique:
received:
24
05
2023
accepted:
09
01
2024
medline:
1
4
2024
pubmed:
1
4
2024
entrez:
1
4
2024
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Pacific Island Countries (PICs) collectively have the lowest rates of access to safely managed or basic drinking water and sanitation globally. They are also the least urbanised, have dynamic socioeconomic and increasing climate-linked challenges. Community-based water managers need to respond to variability in water availability and quality caused by a range of hazards. Water Safety Planning (WSP), a widely adopted approach to assessing water supply, offers a risk-based approach to mitigating both existing and future hazards. WSP is adaptable, and making modifications to prescribed WSP to adapt it to the local context is common practice. Within the Pacific Community Water Management Plus research project, we used formative research and co-development processes to understand existing local modifications, whether further modifications are required, and, to develop additional modifications to WSP in Fiji, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands. The types of additional local modifications we recommend reflect the unique context of PICs, including adjusting for community management of water supplies and required collective action, community governance systems, levels of social cohesion in communities, and preferred adult-learning pedagogies. Incorporating modifications that address these factors into future WSP will improve the likelihood of sustained and safe community water services in Pacific and similar contexts.
Identifiants
pubmed: 38557565
pii: wh_2024_144
doi: 10.2166/wh.2024.144
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
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© 2024 The Authors This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which permits copying and redistribution for non-commercial purposes with no derivatives, provided the original work is properly cited (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare there is no conflict.
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