Another important is that local elites solved the tension generated by the neo-liberal request of contribution to the financial sustainability of the WUAS. Local leaders were capable of dealing with local government, (a potential stakeholder excluded by the project) and forcedly obtained through a blackmail” (see Annex II fig.4) the necessary resources (a municipal “political – grant) to support the communities in the payment of the quotes as expected in the project budget. With this action they avoided tensions between the douar’s communities and the foreign agency, and they did improve the sense of ownership of the project within the community.
Another important is that local elites solved the tension generated by the neo-liberal request of contribution to the financial sustainability of the WUAS. Local leaders were capable of dealing with local government, (a potential stakeholder excluded by the project) and forcedly obtained through a “political blackmail” (see Annex II – fig.4) the necessary resources (a municipal grant) to support the communities in the payment of the quotes as expected in the project budget. With this action they avoided tensions between the douar’s communities and the foreign agency, and they did improve the sense of ownership of the project within the community.
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