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Community Facilities Technical Assistance: Helping Rural Leaders Provide Basic Community Services in Small-town America
A policy paper written by Ari Neumann, Director of Policy Development and Applied Research in the RCAP national office
A policy paper written by Ari Neumann, Director of Policy Development and Applied Research in the RCAP national office
For more information and real-life examples of the regionalization of small systems, check out Summer 2009's 
A paper published by Mark Pearson of Community Resource Group, Southern RCAP
Tapping Untapped Potential: The Role of Technical Assistance Providers in Building Financing, Implementation, an
d Management Capacity for Water Services (PDF; 444 KB)
A paper published in 2004 by Stephen Gasteyer, Director of Water and Community Programs for RCAP
Produced outside RCAP:
Assessing the Environmental and Capacity Development Outcomes of Small Water System Board and Management Training
By Stephen Gasteyer and Keith Taylor, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich.
This is a final report of a project that assessed the outcomes of community water system board and management training (BMT) in enhancing community technical, financial, and managerial capacity and in achieving or protecting environmental quality and public health. One member of the research team, Stephen Gasteyer, is the former Director of Community Development for RCAP and author of Still Living Without the Basics in the 21st Century.
