Institutional influences on local government support for professionalized maintenance of water supply infrastructure in rural Uganda: A qualitative analysis

Caleb Cord; Amy Javernick-Will; Elizabeth Buhungiro; Adam Harvey; Karl Linden

doi:10.1371/journal.pwat.0000003

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Institutional influences on local government support for professionalized maintenance of water supply infrastructure in rural Uganda: A qualitative analysis

Caleb Cord ,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: caleb.cord@colorado.edu (CC); amy.javernick@colorado.edu (AJW)

Affiliations Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America, USAID Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership, United States Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5289-1093

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Amy Javernick-Will ,

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: caleb.cord@colorado.edu (CC); amy.javernick@colorado.edu (AJW)

Affiliations Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America, USAID Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership, United States Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3933-2614

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Elizabeth Buhungiro,

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations USAID Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership, United States Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, United States of America, Whave Solutions Ltd, Kampala, Uganda
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Adam Harvey,

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations USAID Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership, United States Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, United States of America, Whave Solutions Ltd, Kampala, Uganda

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9513-046X

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Karl Linden

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America, USAID Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership, United States Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4301-7227

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Institutional influences on local government support for professionalized maintenance of water supply infrastructure in rural Uganda: A qualitative analysis

Caleb Cord,
Amy Javernick-Will,
Elizabeth Buhungiro,
Adam Harvey,
Karl Linden

Published: February 15, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pwat.0000003

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