s:1089:"TI The Kusa experience: community development in western Kenya 
AU Wagner B 
AU Goldsmith P 
AU Okado M 
AB From 1999 to 2004, RELMA – the Regional Land Management Unit of Sida – worked closely with the Luo community on the Lake Victoria coast in Nyando District. The community, known as Kusa, was among the hardest hit by the blockage of Nyakach bay fishing beaches by water hyacinth. The Kusa Experience tells the story of how the project began. It records the unconventional learning approach taken to discover solutions to the most pressing problems. You will read how community groups organized themselves and initiated schemes that have improved the living conditions of thousands of households, while addressing environmental and health issues (inadequate water supply, gully erosion, flooding, HIV/AIDS and others).The book looks closely at the dynamics of community-based development; how a new local institution was created to manage the process; who were the major stakeholders involved; what were the most effective methods for implementing activities on the ground. 
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