This chapter aims to accomplish two objectives. The first is to explore how water
access in Northern Ghana is heavily influenced by political/social factors. The second is
to examine how the research participants and their customers conceive of human rights.
Ultimately this will help elucidate the potential for a human rights-based approach to
social entrepreneurship. This is critical because, though they often take action in areas
governed by human rights; many social enterprises do not expressly adopt a rights-based
approach to development.