Editing Community management (section)

== Problems with Community Management ==
Community management has been a popular strategy utilized in African water management, but research has shown that Africans often don't prefer this management style.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal |last=Hope |first=Rob |date=2014-12-22 |title=Is community water management the community's choice? Implications for water and development policy in Africa |url=https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2014.170 |journal=Water Policy |volume=17 |issue=4 |pages=664–678 |doi=10.2166/wp.2014.170 |issn=1366-7017|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Main problems of community management, specifically related to water management, consist of potential maintenance issues, population issues, money collecting issues, and a lack of community engagement.

* Community management can create potential maintenance issues that are resolved with less expediency and with less efficiency. This often stems as a result of having a lack of a qualified person to perform the repair or lacking a reliable way to collect money in order to hire someone to do the repair.<ref name=":0" />
* Money collecting issues are a main problem in poorer areas. If not, everyone is paying a fee to use the resources in question, then there won't be any money to make repairs when needed. This includes not paying and a lack of an efficient way to pay fees. People will not go out of their way to pay fees so a solid collection strategy is needed.<ref name=":3" />
* General user fees within community managed water supply systems have been found to be not enough to keep the service operational let alone make repairs when needed.<ref name=":2" /> Even if citizens have the capacity to pay fees it has been found that many people simply don't want to. It is suggested that health concerns about clean drinking water are not enough to create a population of users who are willing to pay user fees let alone maintenance fees when needed.<ref name=":2" />
* Population issues can also cause problems because community management is often more effective on a smaller scale. In other words, communities with smaller populations have an easier time developing effective systems like citizen participation, money collection, or maintenance repairs simply because it is easier to combat the problems that arrive within those areas when there is a smaller group of people affected that need help.<ref name=":4">{{Cite journal |last1=Doe |first1=Steve R. |last2=Khan |first2=M. Sohail |date=2004 |title=The boundaries and limits of community management: Lessons from the water sector in Ghana |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44257835 |journal=Community Development Journal |volume=39 |issue=4 |pages=360–371 |doi=10.1093/cdj/bsh032 |jstor=44257835 |issn=0010-3802|hdl=10919/65512 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
* A lack of community engagement is a chronic issue that arises within community management, as well. In order for community management to be an effective strategy of management style the community must be engaged within the management system in order to reap the community benefits. Despite this, most citizens are not interested in the issues community management organizations are looking to improve, meaning these organizations are getting less input from the community which negates the point of community management.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />