EU-AFD Research Facility on Inequalities: "Inequality related to urban water services in Bolivia"

The Research Facility on Inequalities, a partnership between the European Commission (DevCo) and AFD, has launched its series of weekly webinars. After three years of research aiming to understand and address inequalities in developing and emerging countries, it is now time to share some of the results.

Join us for the third session of the EU-AFD Research Facility on Inequalities’ webinars to be held on Monday, June 8th at 5.00 pm CEST, dedicated to the project Inequalities in urban water services in La Paz et El Alto, Bolivia.

Sarah Botton (AFD research officer) and Patricia Urquieta (CIDES-UMSA researcher), will present the paper “Inequalities related to urban water services in La Paz-El Alto, Bolivia”.

Urban water services are a particularly prolific research object to think about inequalities in the city because they are by definition at the interface of economic, social and environmental problems and they invite to reflect on the sustainability of the territories. But, beyond a common but binary reading of spatial inequalities related to water services (i.e. areas having access versus having no access to the water network) which constitutes the main research approach on the topic, there is, in fact, a multiplicity and complexity of inequalities related to water services implying many other dimensions like revenues, gender, climate change, institutional affiliations, perceptions, etc. This paper, based on the case of La Paz-El Alto, Bolivia, investigates the many research avenues to consider when analyzing urban water related inequalities.

You can also find the schedule of upcoming webinars on the Research Facility on Inequalities’ website in the “Events” section.

For those of you who were not able to join us for the previous sessions, you will also find the replays on our webpage.