ESR 14: Integrity, infrastructure and water sub-sector reform: comparing large scale irrigation and urban water supply in India and Indon
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Employer: School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) |
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Job location: London United Kingdom |
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Apply before: 15 Mar 2019 |
Summary
This ESR position will:
Analyse how national political system and practices (e.g. election system) predetermine the creation, preservation, and reproduction of political and administrative corruption in the water sector
Analyse how the presence/absence of international development funding (agencies); shape water governance (reform) through its (their) role in political and administrative corruption.
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Host institution: School of Oriental and African Studies, United Kingdom
Principal supervisor: Prof. Peter Mollinga
Co-supervisor: Prof. François Molle
Non-academic co-supervisors: Dr. Diana Suhardiman, Dr. Barbara Schreiner
Application deadline: 15 March 2020
Starting date: Between 1 May and 1 September 2020
Duration: 3 years
Topic
The issue of corruption or rent-seeking, often referred to as ‘integrity’ in policy discourse, is a prominent silence in water governance reform debates and scholarship. A key insight that the (limited) literature on corruption in India’s irrigation sector has produced is that it is systemic: it is institutionalised and links the political and administrative spheres, while connecting these spheres with the private (contracting) sector. Recent research on Indonesia has suggested that international development funding for water sector reform has been an important element of the reproduction of the system of political and administrative corruption through the infrastructure investment funds it provides. This project systematically explores these insights to produce deepened understanding of the factors and conditions shaping corruption practices in the water sector, to contribute to better informed debate and policy making on combating corruption. This project addresses the following research question: what are the conditions that shape corruption practices in the water sector in India and Indonesia, and what is the role of international funding support for infrastructure development in this?
This ESR position will:
Analyse how national political system and practices (e.g. election system) predetermine the creation, preservation, and reproduction of political and administrative corruption in the water sector
Analyse how the presence/absence of international development funding (agencies); shape water governance (reform) through its (their) role in political and administrative corruption.
Analyse how governance arrangements in the large scale irrigation and urban water supply sub-sectors differentially shape political and administrative corruption
Analyse how the characteristics of water infrastructure shape political and administrative corruption
Derive short-term and long-term policy recommendations for combating corruption from these findings.
Expected results:
Innovative analysis of corruption practices in the water sector in India and Indonesia
A new framework for systematic comparative analysis of corruption in the water sector
Original contribution to national and global policy discussion on measures and strategies for combating corruption.
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