Corruption and Service Delivery (Water Supply and Sanitation Sector) in Fitche Town
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2015-07
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Addis Ababa University
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This study attempts to explore the current situation of corruption in water supply and sanitation
sector and corruption depraving environment as well as the current status and institutional
bottlenecks in fighting corruption in Fitche Town. To this end, the study employed mixed
approach, which involves both quantitative and qualitative data gathering tools. This survey was
conducted over 385 respondents in Fitche Town using multistage cluster sampling. Key
informant interview and questionnaires were mainly used to collect data . The study reveals
corruption remain problem in the town water supply sanitation sector service delivery and petty
corruption is the very most common and serious challenge in the town water and sanitation
sector. In relation with this community face different challenges like poor quality of service and
lack of productivity. Besides community involvement in decision making as well as fight against
corruption is less. At the end, the Study provides certain points which help to minimize the
impact of corruption on water supply and sanitation sector as well as to fight against it. These
are setting systems and structures that can reduce incidences of corruption and ensure efficient
delivery of services, use modern information communication technologies, awareness creation,
support the participation of stakeholders,erection strong Cooperation between governmental and
non-governmental actors, developing institutional anti-corruption strategy as well as include
and implement codes of conduct which help to fight against corruption.
Keywords corruption, service delivery, petty corruption
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Corruption, Service delivery, petty corruption