Shahrukh Rafi Khan
(Fatimah Aslam, Rashid Bashir, Abdul Fatah, Sajid azmi, Asif Mahmood, Khalid Pervez and oreen Saher)
Monograph Series # 3
1998

Overview

This report is primarily about exploring the determinants of rural
water supply scheme (RWSS) sustainability. The two
complementary hypotheses being explored are that demand
responsive project rules and social mobilization are positively
correlated with scheme sustainability. These hypotheses are viewed
as complementary because the implementation of project rules
critically depends on the success a project has in mobilizing
communities.

A “project” represents a funding agency with a particular set of
rules for funding community RWSS. The key aspects of demand
responsive rules are that they conform to demand theory with
regards to allowing communities to choose a level of service and
requiring communities to at least partially pay for the service. The
logic is that demand responsive project rules would result in selfselection
on the part of communities and those communities would
opt for the service that could pay for it and, given this, would own
the scheme and participate in its maintenance.