Zaqout, M. orcid.org/0000-0001-6978-8252, Fayad, M. orcid.org/0009-0008-7386-0120, Barrington, D.J. orcid.org/0000-0002-1486-9247 et al. (2 more authors) (Cover date: 2024) Sanitation is political: understanding stakeholders’ incentives in funding sanitation for the Gaza Strip, Palestine. Third World Quarterly, 45 (9). pp. 1437-1457. ISSN 0143-6597
Abstract
The Gaza Strip is dependent on external aid to deliver basic services, including water and sanitation. Such services are not sustainable due to the Israeli occupation and the limited financial and technical capacities of service providers and the state. This paper examines the incentives of stakeholders in delivering sanitation services in the Gaza Strip through a qualitative institutional economics analysis of literature supplemented with qualitative key informant interviews. External aid is crucial to deliver basic services in the Gaza Strip. However, this has created a dependency that undermines the sustainability of sanitation services. Donor agencies often prioritise capital expenditure on visible infrastructure, such as wastewater treatment, without addressing its long and short-term operational needs; hence the Gaza Strip’s needs are continually addressed as an emergency response. The Palestinian Authority and Hamas de facto governments lack sovereignty over the Gaza Strip and Palestine. Therefore, they also lack the capacity and incentives to create an enabling environment for delivering safely managed sanitation. This paper contributes to development policy literature, the politics of infrastructure and wider politics of settler colonialism and siege basic services such as water and sanitation.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
Keywords: | Political economy, external aid, Gaza Strip, water and sanitation, Palestine |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Civil Engineering (Leeds) The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 12 Mar 2024 10:08 |
Last Modified: | 08 Aug 2024 14:21 |
Published Version: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01436... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/01436597.2024.2318476 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:210169 |