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| Title: | Women, Water Supply and Sanitation Problems in Poor Compounds of Lusaka |
| Author: | Sikwibele, Anne L. |
| Year: | 1996 |
| Periodical: | Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review (ISSN 1027-1775) |
| Volume: | 12 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Period: | June |
| Pages: | 37-52 |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | biblio. refs. |
| Geographic terms: | Zambia Central Africa |
| Subjects: | water supply women sanitation Women's Issues Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Urbanization and Migration Cultural Roles Health, Nutrition, and Medicine Sex Roles urbanization Medicine, Nutrition, Public Health Women's role public health Lusaka (Zambia) |
| Abstract: | Providing adequate water and sanitation in the urban shantytowns of Zambia remains difficult, despite increasing government concern. The problem is compounded by poverty and overcrowding, operational difficulties, inadequate funding due to uncollected water rates and low user fees, lack of coordination between the various agencies and departments concerned and the absence of institutional monitoring and legal enforcement of the laws regarding environmental pollution. Based on questionnaire interviews with 600 respondents, mainly women, carried out in 1992 in seven compounds in Lusaka - Chaisa, Chipata, Chawama, George, Kanyama, Mandevu and Marapodi - the author presents information on specific water and sanitation issues, in particular problems related to the sharing of toilets, the fetching of water, garbage disposal and disease prevalence. She highlights the Project Urban Self-Help (PUSH), which started in 1991 and which aims to improve nutritional and environmental health standards in compounds by providing food to people who work on projects such as road maintenance, drainage clearance, toilet construction and refuse collection. The project targets mainly women as they are the most vulnerable group and yet have to provide food for their families even without access to income-generating activities. Bibliogr. |
