How do participation and social capital affect community-based water projects? Evidence from Central Java, Indonesia

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511492600.007

5 - How do participation and social capital affect community-based water projects? Evidence from Central Java, Indonesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009

Jonathan Isham and

Satu Kähkönen

Edited by

Christiaan Grootaert and

Thierry van Bastelaer

Foreword by

Robert Puttnam

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Jonathan Isham: Affiliation:
Assistant Professor of Economics and an affiliated member of the Environmental Studies Program Middlebury College, Vermont
Satu Kähkönen: Affiliation:
Senior Economist World Bank
Christiaan Grootaert: Affiliation:
The World Bank
Thierry van Bastelaer: Affiliation:
University of Maryland, College Park

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Most rural villages in the Indonesian province of Central Java lack regular access to clean drinking water, and many face severe water shortages, particularly during the dry season. The lack of clean water increases rates of sickness and death and reduces the time and resources available for productive activity, thereby diminishing well-being. Household incomes in these villages are low, and access to other types of infrastructure, such as roads, is limited. More than half of rural villages in Central Java are classified as poor, based on infrastructure, housing, and environmental and population characteristics (World Bank 1995).

To improve access to safe drinking water in Central Java, several governmental and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) initiated rural water projects in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The government of Indonesia implemented two projects that were partially financed by the World Bank, the Water Supply and Sanitation Project for Low Income Communities (WSSLIC) and the Village Infrastructure Project (VIP). WSSLIC serves about 2,000 villages in five Indonesian provinces (Central Java, Southeast Sulawesi, North Sulawesi, Maluku, and Nusa Tenggara Timur). VIP consists of two separate projects, Village Infrastructure Project for Java (VIP I) and its extension, Second Village Infrastructure Project (VIP II). VIP I serves 1,200 villages in Java; VIP II serves 2,600 villages in Java and Sumatra.

The objectives of WSSLIC are to provide safe, adequate, and easily accessible water supply and to support hygiene education through community-based arrangements.

Type: Chapter
Information: The Role of Social Capital in Development
An Empirical Assessment
, pp. 155 - 187

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511492600.007 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2002

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