Determining Progress on Access to Water and Sanitation: The Case Study of South Africa.
This chapter first outlines South Africa’s the rights-based frameworks for the provision of water and sanitation services. It then uses quantitative data on municipal service delivery to engage in a quantitative econometric analysis to ‘test the capacity defence’ regarding the degree of provision of municipal water and sanitation services across the municipalities (i.e. it tests the extent to which the level of delivery is directly correlated with the level of financial resources available to that municipality). The econometric analysis identifies that some poorer municipalities have performed better than some richer municipalities and vice versa. The chapter then uses quantitative sources to explain the non-financial resources related explanations for these findings.
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