Harnessing the plurality of actor frames in social-ecological systems: ecological sanitation in Bolivia. Issue 3 (3rd April 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Eelderink, Madelon; Vervoort, Joost; Snel, Demian; de Castro, Fabio
• Is Part Of: Development in practice. Volume 27:Issue 3(2017)
• Page Start: 275
• Page End: 287
• Publication Date: 2017-04-03
• Subjects: Civil society – NGOs, Partnership, Participation -- Aid – Capacity development -- Latin America; Technical assistance -- Developing countries -- Periodicals; Economic assistance -- Developing countries -- Periodicals; Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals; 338.91091724
• DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2017.1291583
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0961-4524

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article uses a case study on ecological sanitation as a basis for lessons on identifying and harnessing the plurality of actor frames in social-ecological systems, thereby moving beyond the advocacy positions often taken by implementing NGOs. The study aimed to explore how perspectives between the implementing agencies of an ecological sanitation project in rural Bolivia and the owners of a urine-diverting dry toilet (UDDT) relate to each other, and how this influenced the outcome of the project. The article provides key elements and an example methodology for social learning in the context of multiple interpretative frames in development projects.