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Collection: REACH Water Security
Exploring water access in rural Kenya: narratives of social capital, gender inequalities and household water security in Kitui county
- Abstract:
- Access to water and sanitation as a basic human right is still limited within resource-poor rural settings of Africa, including Kitui, Kenya. This is exacerbated by prevailing gender inequalities which can be mediated when communities leverage on social capital. Qualitative methods were used to examine how values embedded in social capital enable women and vulnerable groups to cope with household water insecurity. How communities exploit the bonding and bridging dimensions of social capital to cope with water insecurities has gendered implications. Understanding the role of social capital is important in advancing public policy to reduce gender inequalities in water access.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1080/02508060.2021.1940715
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- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Journal:
- Water International0250-8060 More from this journal
- Volume:
- 46
- Issue:
- 5
- Pages:
- 677-696
- Publication date:
- 2021-07-21
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-06-08
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1941-1707
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0250-8060
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English
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1305180
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- Copyright date:
- 2021
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- © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
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