%0 Generic %D Submitted %T Ethiopia: Institutional environment & local coping strategies within a MUS system in Legedini %A Martine Jeths %A Eline Boelee (contact) %A Frans Huibers %A Desalegne Simachew %X

This M.Sc thesis analyzes the recent installation of infrastructure in Legedini: a borehole with diesel pump and the development of a nearby spring for health and food. As the technologies were too complicated and too costly and insufficiently embedded in village institutions, they were abandoned after the first break down. This highlights the need for technologies that are affordable, developing alternative sources of income or accepting people’s perpetuated dependence on external aid.

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