Sustainability is on top of the list of countries, of development partners and of IRC. Now that we know about the high break down rates of pumps and pipes, we are alarmed. And we should be! Not only because breakdowns are a waste of investment and a waste of tax payers’ money, but because people... Read more...
Chemisto Satya Ali, Water, sanitation and hygiene advisor, in the Rwenzori Portfolio at SNV Uganda relates about the joint initiative of IRC/Triple-S Uganda, Makare University, SNV Uganda and WaterAid Uganda, to introduce the use mobile phones in monitoring water services in Uganda. This video was... Read more...
Seth Damasah, Head of the District Water and Sanitation Team of Akatsi District in the Volta Region in Ghana, describes how they have recently starting to use the FLOW technology, to monitor water services in Ghana. Read more...
A message from the Country Coordinator of Triple-S Uganda, on the occasion of the World Water Day 2012 Read more...
“Closing the gap: WASH sector devolution and decentralisation in Malawi” takes a close look at how donor financing and lack of awareness about access to funds for both infrastructure and capacity building can be better aligned; particularly in Malawi’s decentralised water sector. Read more...
Mrs Vida Duti, Ghana Country Director for IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, has emphasized the need for a national framework for monitoring WASH services in an interview on national radio . Read more...
In October 2011, during its annual Joint Sector Review, the Uganda Ministry of Water and Environment resolved to promote the formation of Hand Pump Mechanics Associations (HPMAs) as a way of enhancing sustainability of rural water services. Read more...
After two and a half years of implementing the Project in Ghana, the Triple-S Project is already looking into the future and asking , “what will our legacy in Ghana be and how to address the issue of scaling up the Project?”. Read more...
Scale, and associated words and phrases, such as ‘scaling up’, ‘large scale’, ‘appropriate scale’ and ‘economies of scale’ are both central to development discourse and often misunderstood or interpreted in different ways. As scale is at the heart of IRC’s work on services delivery, this note seeks... Read more...
Ghana shared her experience of monitoring sustainable services using the FLOW technology during the 4 th Africa Water Week held in Cairo, Egypt from May 14 to 18, 2012. Read more...
Vida Duti of Triple-S Ghana offers insight into how Ghana is making the shift from a focus on infrastructure to a focus on service delivery--revealing not just the country's progress but also the struggle inherent in any change process. Read more...
In this second clip, Vida Duti uses the metaphor of a ship on a voyage to explain the challenges faced by the water sector in being able to sustain... Read more...
The Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) has adopted the Service Delivery Approach to providing rural water and sanitation services in Ghana. Read more...
The Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) has held its 2011 Annual Review Conference in Kumasi from April 23 to 26, 2012 under the theme “Tracking functionality of WASH facilities - A key to sustainable services”. Participants were drawn from the ten regional offices of CWSA and selected... Read more...
Vida Duti, Triple-S Ghana leader, heads a team of ten people who are hosted by the Community Water and Sanitation Agency. In seven short video clips, Vida talks about how the Ghanaian water sector is moving towards sustainable rural water service delivery. Read more...
In this first clip, Vida reflects on the successes of the Ghana water sector and the trade-off between reaching the unreached and sustaining what is... Read more...
In this third clip Vida Duti talks about the importance of monitoring water services to plan and direct investments. Triple-S has worked on... Read more...