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Conclusion

Heri ya mwaka mpya !  This blog post marks the end of my safari across the study of water management implications and politics at local level.  Before starting this module, I knew very little about how water was managed …I believed Africa’s water issue was one of quantity. And yet… how wrong I was. I learnt about new techniques to extract and locate water, which then helped me understand how communities could benefit from international and national integration.  These past view months have been very thought provoking, in that before I started reading, I was a firm believer in community-led projects combined with private and external actor participation simply because from my previous experiences and from what I had read in relation to development, I felt that grassroots approaches seemed much more efficient, especially when public services were failing in Africa.   As this term passed though, I came to understand that context was more than just relevant for the implem

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