Governing Ourselves for Sustainability: Everyday Ingenuities in the Governance of Water Infrastructure in the Informal S
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Governing Ourselves for Sustainability: Everyday Ingenuities in the Governance of Water Infrastructure in the Informal Settlements of Dar es Salaam Francis Dakyaga 1,2,3
& Abubakari
Ahmed 4 & Mavis Lepiinlia Sillim 5,6
Accepted: 1 October 2020/ # Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract Everyday ingenuities have gained hegemony in urban governance scholarship in the Global South, especially regarding the informal settlements of sub-Saharan Africa, where public water services are limited. Within the global commitment to sustainability, through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this article explores how nonstate actors (water service providers) develop and sustain water infrastructure (provide, manage water systems for continued availability) in the informal settlements, through the lens of the everyday ingenuities and governance for sustainability framework, and a qualitative research approach. The study realized the involvement of individuals and group of actors in water infrastructure governance. The actors self-mobilized resources and develop low-cost water infrastructure systems. The actors engaged in a gamut of actions, transactions, clientelist (broker and clients’ relationships), and interactions (buying and selling of water, networking, production, cooperation, partnerships) to manage water infrastructure, the practices were guided by unwritten rules and regulations, and not independent of state actors’ interactions, but formed and developed through the relations between state and non-state water service providers. The findings suggest that water infrastructures in the informal settlements are developed and sustained through the everyday act of inventing, repetitive self-actions, ordering and disordering of the rules and mechanisms, among the inter-depending actors (producers and resellers of water), and their interactional relationship with the state water utility provider (DAWASA). Keywords Urban politics . Everyday practices . Urban sustainability . Self-governance .
Informal settlements . Sub-Saharan Africa
* Francis Dakyaga francis.dakyaga@tu–dortmund.de; [email protected] Extended author information available on the last page of the article
F. Dakyaga et al.
Introduction The global development agenda “Leaving no one behind” entrenched in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) paradigm raises significant concerns and pathways towards inclusive growth along with defined developmental priorities (UNESCO 2019; Ramutsindela and Mickler 2020). Fundamental to the global development priorities epitomized in the SDGs is to “ensure the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all” (SDG 6) (United Nations 2016). Consistent with the drive to “ensure the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all” is the call for collective action—collaborative governance of water infrastructure by the public and private water service providers (Alfaro d’Alençon, et al. 2016; United Nations (Habitat III) 2017). Unfortunately, over the years, bot
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