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  • Water point mapping in Tanzania :making the voices of data collectors audible

    • Authors: Georgiadou, Yola;  Advisor: -;  Participants: - (2016)

  • Any attempt to develop mobile-phone based platforms that allow citizens themselves to report data on near-by rural water points and update the Water Point Mapping System (WPMS) baseline in Tanzania depends on an understanding of reporting practices of water users or their representatives within the local context. The aim of this paper is to describe such reporting practices to official data collectors during the nation-wide baseline data collection for the WPMS project (May 2011 to April 2013). We draw on fieldwork for a five-year action research project (2012-2017) titled Sensors, Empowerment and Accountability in Tanzania (SEMA), and funded by NWO-WOTRO Science for Global Developmen...
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  • Wicked Water Points : The Quest for an Error Free National Water Point Database

    • Authors: Verplanke, J.J.;  Advisor: -;  Participants: - (2017)

  • The Water Sector Development Programme (WSDP) of Tanzania aims to improve the performance of the water sector in general and rural water supply (RWS) in particular. During the first phase of the WSDP (2007 to 2014), implementing agencies developed information systems for attaining management efficiencies. One of these systems, the Water Point Mapping System (WPMS), has now been completed, and the database is openly available to the public, as part of the country’s commitment to the Open Government Partnership (OGP) initiative. The Tanzanian WPMS project was the first attempt to map “wall-to-wall” all rural public water points in an African nation. The complexity of the endeavor led to...