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LAUSANNE SUMMER SCHOOL
CACS EPFL
Wade, R. (1982). “The system of administrative and political corruption: Canal irrigation in South India”.
The Journal of Development Studies, vol. 18, n° 3, pp. 287–328.
Suhardiman, D. and Mollinga, P. (2012). “Correlations, causes and the logic of obscuration: Donor shaping
of dominant narratives in Indonesia’s irrigation development”. The Journal of Development Studies,
vol. 48, n° 7, pp. 923-938.
Thursday 11 July
Natural Resources and Environment 2
09:00 >12:00 Rural water supply and sanitation in the Mekong delta, Vietnam:
global goals, national policy and local practice
Nadine Reis
Brief sketch of water supply and sanitation problems in the Mekong region as an
example of the “global water crisis”. Discussion of the global governance response
to that crisis – the Millennium Development Goals for water supply and sanitation.
National policy and the “aid game”: outcomes, processes, and business for bureaucrats;
Discussion of the logic of development assistance in the water supply and
sanitation sector – for donors, for national governments and for local bureaucrats.
Ground realities of rural water supply and sanitation (RWSS) in the Mekong delta:
Discussion of practices of water supply infrastructure creation and micro-credits
schemes for RWSS.
12:00 >13:00 Lunch
13:00 >15:00 Questions and Answers
Peter Mollinga and Nadine Reis
Formulation and discussion of general insights from the two presentations
15:00 >17:00 Follow-up on student presentations: selection of topics and working
in groups with tutors
F. Graezer Bideau, C. Lutringer and I. Vogel Chevroulet
18:00 >19:30 Optional movie: 3 Idiots
(movie by Rajkumar Hirani, India, 2009, 111 min.)
Compulsory reading
Reis, N. and Mollinga, P. (2012).” Water Supply or ‘Beautiful Latrines’? Microcredit for Rural Water Supply
and Sanitation in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam”. ASEAS – Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies,
vol. 5, n° 1, pp. 10-29.
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