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AQUACOL - associative community management of water and sanitation

📍 Colombia · 2001 · AQUACOL (Asociación de Organizaciones Comunitarias Prestadoras de Servicios Públicos de Agua y Saneamiento de Colombia)

Scale

local

subnational

national

systemic

Description

Second-tier association that brings together community-based organizations providing water and sanitation services in rural and peri-urban areas of Valle del Cauca and Cauca. It emerged from the associative strengthening process among community aqueducts supported by the CINARA Institute (AGUA 1998 event) and obtained legal status in 2001; the Mondomo aqueduct was a founding node and operates as a Community Water Learning Center.

Linked evidence

▦Community Management of Rural Water and Associativism in Colombia (DESAFIO Project, en español)WATERLAT-GOBACIT Working Papers, DESAFIO Project Series SPIDES, Vol. 2, No 11 (FP7, Unión Europea). Autores: Peña, M., García, M., Toro, A.F., Vargas, J., Cerón, V.A., Mena, E., Orjuela, V. · 2015Evidence ▦Los retos y perspectivas de la gestión comunitaria del agua: el caso del acueducto comunitario del corregimiento de Mondomo (Santander de Quilichao, Cauca)Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Maestría en Desarrollo Rural (autor: Lasso, E., 2021) · 2021Evidence