We all know how successful team GB was at the London Olympics with 29 golds and 65 medals overall. This was a fantastic achievement and the result of years of preparation and putting into practice a comprehensive sports policy for the UK. It wasn’t just investment in the athlete or their equipment... Read more...
Participants at the MOLE XXIII Conference have called for the establishment a national water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) Fund to finance capital maintenance of facilities to ensure sustainability. Read more...
‘It’s about sustainable water services, not just about pumps and pipes’. That was one of the main messages (and title) of the presentation on monitoring water services in Ghana, presented by Marieke Adank from IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre in the ‘Judge us by our outcomes’ session... Read more...
The Triple-S Project in Ghana conducted an assessment of water service delivery in its three pilot districts (East Gonja; Akatsi and Sunyani West) on functionality of water facilities and the level of services provided. Read more...
WASHCost Briefing Note No. 5 presents findings on access to sanitation services in rural and small towns in Ghana using the Life-Cycle Costs Approach (LCCA) developed by WASHCost for the water, sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector. Read more...
On the 20th of August the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre organised an in-house debate on the pros and cons of adding a sustainability clause in contracts between donors and implementers in Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programmes. Despite challenges in terms of creating a chain... Read more...
Marieke Adank discusses the possibilities for domestic plus approaches in Ghana. Watch the presentation and listen to the discussion here. Read more...
During the IRC seminar on MUS, which took place on 22 June 2012, Marieke Adank shared the her views on how to bring MUS to scale in Ghana, by applying the Domestic Plus approach. Read more...
Le projet WASHCost au Ghana a organisé en mars et avril 2012 une formation sur l’approche des coûts à long terme (Life-Cycle Cost Approach – LCCA) dans trois circonscriptions de trois régions du Ghana. Read more...
Le programme au Ghana de l'IRC, Centre International de l'Eau et de l'Assainissement, l'Université des Sciences et Technologies de Kwame Nkrumah (KNUST) et la Coalition des ONG Eau et Assainissement au Ghana (CONIWAS) organisent une formation sur l' « établissement des coûts de services d'eau et d'... Read more...
This paper offers a methodological framework to assess the cost effectiveness of hygiene interventions based on preliminary test observations in... Read more...
The Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) is in the process of finalising a number of service delivery documents to guide the rural water and sanitation sub-sector in Ghana. The documents will critically enhance service delivery in the rural water sector. Read more...
Traditional chiefs appealed to the Accra Municipal Assembly (AMA) that central funding to the WASH sector is not reaching their districts. This results in a disastrous situation that affects all irrespective of who you are. This was said during a budget tracking exercise organized by the NGO... Read more...
Ghana through the Community Water and Sanitation Agency is developing a District Operational Manual (DOM) to guide the delivery of water and sanitation services at the local government level. The document is aimed to strengthen the capacity of local government officials as well as address gaps... Read more...
The WASHTech project in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Uganda is in its second year of implementation. The key activities of 2012 are to conduct a technology assessment by using the “Technology Applicability Framework (TAF)” currently under development and to document changes resulting from stakeholder... Read more...