Strengthening rural community water safety planning in Pacific Island countries: evidence and lessons from Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and Fiji.

Autor:	Souter RT; International Water Centre, Griffith University, 170 Kessel Road, Nathan 4111, Australia E-mail: r.souter@griffith.edu.au., Ruuska D; International Water Centre, Griffith University, 170 Kessel Road, Nathan 4111, Australia., Pene S; School of Agriculture, Geography, Environment, Ocean and Natural Science, The University of the South Pacific, Laucala Campus, Suva, Fiji., Benjamin C; School of Public Health, Solomon Islands National University, Kukum Campus, Honiara, Solomon Islands., Funubo S; School of Public Health, Solomon Islands National University, Kukum Campus, Honiara, Solomon Islands., Beal CD; Cities Research Institute and School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, Griffith University, 170 Kessel Road, Nathan 4111, Brisbane, Australia., Sanderson R; International Water Centre, Griffith University, 170 Kessel Road, Nathan 4111, Australia., Batikawai S; International Water Centre, Griffith University, 170 Kessel Road, Nathan 4111, Australia; School of Public Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia., Ravai A; School of Agriculture, Geography, Environment, Ocean and Natural Science, The University of the South Pacific, Laucala Campus, Suva, Fiji., Antoinette-Wickham T; Plan International - Pacific, Honiara, Solomon Islands., Rankin T; Plan International - Melbourne, Australia., Peter L; Vanuatu Red Cross, Port Vila, Vanuatu., Molitambe H; School of Agriculture, Geography, Environment, Ocean and Natural Science, The University of the South Pacific, Emalus Campus, Port Vila, Vanuatu., Theophile G; Department of Water Resources, Government of Vanuatu, Port Vila, Vanuatu., Shrestha S; International Water Centre, Griffith University, 170 Kessel Road, Nathan 4111, Australia., Kotra KK; School of Agriculture, Geography, Environment, Ocean and Natural Science, The University of the South Pacific, Emalus Campus, Port Vila, Vanuatu., Bugoro H; Epidemiology and Research, Solomon Islands National University, Kukum Campus, Honiara, Solomon Islands., Panda N; School of Public Health, Solomon Islands National University, Kukum Campus, Honiara, Solomon Islands., Deo V; Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Government of Fiji, Suva, Fiji., Love M; International Water Centre, Griffith University, 170 Kessel Road, Nathan 4111, Australia.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Journal of water and health [J Water Health] 2024 Mar; Vol. 22 (3), pp. 467-486. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Feb 06.
DOI:	10.2166/wh.2024.144
Abstrakt:	Pacific Island Countries (PICs) collectively have the lowest rates of access to safely managed or basic drinking water and sanitation globally. They are also the least urbanised, have dynamic socioeconomic and increasing climate-linked challenges. Community-based water managers need to respond to variability in water availability and quality caused by a range of hazards. Water Safety Planning (WSP), a widely adopted approach to assessing water supply, offers a risk-based approach to mitigating both existing and future hazards. WSP is adaptable, and making modifications to prescribed WSP to adapt it to the local context is common practice. Within the Pacific Community Water Management Plus research project, we used formative research and co-development processes to understand existing local modifications, whether further modifications are required, and, to develop additional modifications to WSP in Fiji, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands. The types of additional local modifications we recommend reflect the unique context of PICs, including adjusting for community management of water supplies and required collective action, community governance systems, levels of social cohesion in communities, and preferred adult-learning pedagogies. Incorporating modifications that address these factors into future WSP will improve the likelihood of sustained and safe community water services in Pacific and similar contexts. Competing Interests: The authors declare there is no conflict. (© 2024 The Authors This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which permits copying and redistribution for non-commercial purposes with no derivatives, provided the original work is properly cited (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).)
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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