I certainly don’t mean to question others’ on the ground experience, but when I asked people in Uganda and Kenya what programs to fund, water projects were the most common response.
I had assumed that the reason for this was something like, drinking poor quality water is unpleasant or stigmatized beyond the simple health effects, or maybe assumptions about the appropriate role for international funders. But I can’t discount the possibility they know something we don’t.
I certainly don’t mean to question others’ on the ground experience, but when I asked people in Uganda and Kenya what programs to fund, water projects were the most common response.
I had assumed that the reason for this was something like, drinking poor quality water is unpleasant or stigmatized beyond the simple health effects, or maybe assumptions about the appropriate role for international funders. But I can’t discount the possibility they know something we don’t.
Thanks so much Ian. I love this take and I kind of hope your are right.