Country director | IRC Ghana
Vida Duti is the Country Director of IRC Ghana. She has 20 years working experience with national and international entities in the areas of community development and poverty reduction; gender and development; capacity development of local government actors; democratic governance and public sector reforms.
Vida was the Country Team Leader for Triple-S (Sustainable Services at Scale) Ghana and she is currently involved in WASH policy and sector change management processes which is resulting in transformational changes and partnerships for sustainable water service delivery. She has in-depth experience in the design and management of different financing mechanisms including district performance based-grants and social investment funds.
This strategy is aligned with government priorities and trends in the WASH sector, and interventions by other development partners. Read more...
This document sets out a series of participatory exercises that can be used to design a 2-4 day programme focused on sector strengthening for... Read more...
Communal groundwater supplies are likely to remain the main source of improved water supplies for many rural areas in Africa and South Asia for... Read more...
The district's unserved have been mapped and the dilemmas identified that need to be overcome to ensure that no one is left behind. Read more...
Water-related emotional distress is predominantly associated with the 'cost of water' and the 'size of household'. Read more...
A strategic partnership has broken down barriers between those who plan, provide and use services enabling them to 'walk the talk' of coordination... Read more...
Innovative mechanisms for the financing of capital maintenance of piped systems in Ghana may not necessarily fix the problems of poor service... Read more...
District Assemblies (DAs) are not fully exercising their mandates as development authorities, responsible for planning, implementation, coordination... Read more...
This case study describes barriers to sustainability and WaterAid's approaches to addressing them in Nicaragua.. Read more...
This document sets out some of the main service authority and service provider functions required for delivery of sustainable rural water supply... Read more...
Podcast featuring Virginia Roaf, Neville Okwaro and Radha Paudel, who discuss how to tackle the taboo surrounding menstrual hygiene at the global... Read more...
The story of the SmarterWASH project in Ghana; the achievements, challenges, experiences, lessons learned over the years. Read more...
The Sanitation Challenge for Ghana is an innovation programme to motivate Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAs) to develop their... Read more...
While allocations to India's national sanitation campaign to eradicate open defecation have increased considerably, budget tracking shows that... Read more...
Business models and breakthrough approaches to solve India's rural sanitation challenges. Read more...
Handwashing after contact with excreta is poorly practised globally, despite the likely positive health benefits. Read more...
A step by step guidance for developing a communication strategy for your programme. Read more...
Less misleading displays of financial data, such as stacked histograms, which separate capital and recurrent expenditure, are preferable to flow... Read more...
In this document we capture the inputs that contributed in improving water supply to households and an assessment of cost approximation by the Punjab... Read more...
