African Water Laws - Natural Resources Institute

Contents
1. Legal pluralism and rural water management: objectives, definitions and issues
(Barbara van Koppen, John Butterworth, and Ibrahim Juma with Faustin Maganga, Jim Latham,
Claudious Chikozho and Mike Morris)
2. The New Institutional Economics of India's Water Policy
(Tushaar Shah)
3. Current reforms and their implications for rural water management in Tanzania
(Ibrahim H. Juma and Faustin P. Maganga)
4. Challenges of legislating for water utilisation in rural Tanzania: drafting new laws
(Palamagamba John Kabudi)
5. Kenya's new water law: an analysis of the implications for the rural poor
(Albert Mumma)
6. Intersections of human rights and customs: a livelihood perspective on water laws
(Bill Derman, Anne Hellum, and Pinimidzai Sithole
7. Shona customary practices in the context of water sector reforms in Zimbabwe
(Claudious Chikozho and Jim Latham)
8. Understanding legal pluralism in water rights: lessons from Africa and Asia
(Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Leticia Nkonya)
9. Making water rights administration work
Héctor Garduño)
10. Formal law and local water control in the Andean region: a field of fierce contestation
(Rutgerd Boelens and Rocio Bustamante)
11. A step by step guide to scale up Community Driven Development
(Hans P. Binswanger and Tuu-Van Nguyen)
12. Water in rural communities
(Jacomina P. de Regt)
13. Community-based based principles for negotiating water rights: some conjectures on assumptions and
priorities
(Bryan Bruns)
14. Managing the River Njoro Watershed, Kenya: conflicting laws, policies, and community priorities
(Francis Lelo, Wanjiku Chiuri and Mimi Jenkins)
15. Dynamics of poverty, livelihoods and property rights in the Lower Nyando Basin of Kenya
(Brent Swallow, Leah Onyango, Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Nienke Holl)
16. Hydronomics and terranomics in the Nyando basin of Western Kenya
(Leah Onyango, Brent Swallow, and Ruth Meinzen-Dick)
17. Getting access to adequate water: community organizing, women and social change in Western Kenya
(Jessica L. Roy with Ben Crow and Brent Swallow)
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