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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Figures and tables -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Research purpose and background -- Part I Community management: background, review and challenges -- 2 Community management and community management plus: the background -- 3 A systematic review of success factors in the community management of rural water supplies over the past 30 years -- 4 Revisiting the history, concepts and typologies of community management for rural drinking water supply in India -- 5 Case study research methodology -- Part II Community management case studies of success from India -- 6 Community management in the 'neo-patrimonial', low-income states -- 7 Community management in the 'social-democratic', middle-income states -- 8 Community management in the 'developmental', high-income states -- 9 Community management in the mountains and hilly regions of India -- Part III Synthesis of successful community management arrangements in India -- 10 Organisational arrangements for successful community management -- 11 The cost of good services -- 12 Monitoring and regulation of community management -- 13 Aspects of gender in community management -- 14 Discussion and conclusions about community management in India and beyond -- Appendix: overview of case studies and analytical tables -- References -- Index

This is a conference paper. ; In the community management model significant support from government and other entities is needed to ensure sustainable rural water services. The Community Water plus project investigates the nature and resource implications of such support in twenty community-managed rural water programmes that have been deemed to be successful in India. This paper presents the research framework and discusses the emerging findings from the first nine case studies. Contrary to the research hypothesis, which is that in these successful cases a significant amount of on-going specialist support will be found, the findings to date are showing a considerable level of support in the project implementation stage but a limited amount of specialist support in the service delivery and capital maintenance phases. However, in many of the cases, the close integration of community management in the prevailing system of local government, particularly the Gram Panchayats, creates an underlying mechanism for support during the service delivery phase. Whilst this arrangement has pragmatic benefits, it also raises questions about the boundaries between what constitutes community management and public service provision, as well as about the lines of accountability between communities, service providers and local governments.