Despite increasing investments and a shift to a service delivery logic towards rural water in 2007, sustainability of rural water services remains problematic. This short presentation is about the development of service delivery indicators to better identify sustainability problems. This... Read more...
The Service Delivery Index in 5 slides, originally presented at the 2013 Triple-S Annual Review and Planning Meeting. Read more...
Particulièrement fréquents sur de nombreux sites web, les mots durabilité et transparence rencontrent un vrai succès auprès de la communauté internationale du développement et font le buzz. Malheureusement, cette facilité d'emploi par le secteur n'est pas reflétée dans les actes ; ces mots manquent... Read more...
Elder Joe is the proud secretary of a water committee managing a handpump on the outskirts of Odumase town in Ghana. But the committee would rather manage a different type of system. Read more...
The costs of getting spare parts for handpumps can sometimes be higher than the costs of the parts. But a new SMS-based system might help. Read more...
The Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) in Ghana is developing a framework for assessing and monitoring water services. Read more...
In March 2012, UNICEF and WHO announced that the Millennium Development Goal for water had been met. But that's just the start. Read more...
USAID and Rotary International's development and adoption of the powerful Sustainability Index Tool is great news. Read more...
This is great news and fantastic to see USAID adopting and promoting this approach which aims to really track and better understand the underlying causes of poor sustainability in the WASH sector. Read more...
I cannot resist visiting the odd water works or taking photographs of the local water and sanitation facilities during my holidays. Read more...
Triple-S Ghana shares results of the baseline assessment of the status of service levels, service providers and support functions, in Akatsi, Sunyani West and East Gonja districts in the Volta, Brong Ahafo and Northern regions respectively. Read more...
C’est avec grand plaisir que j’annonce, au nom du Conseil de Surveillance, la nomination de Patrick Moriarty en qualité de Directeur Général de l’IRC, à partir du 1er Septembre 2013. Read more...
Inexpensive mobile networks, smart phones, and apps. They are already transforming lives and livelihoods across the developing world. Can they transform water services too? Read more...
A ‘User Satisfaction Survey’ of water users has been carried out in the Akatsi South District of the Volta Region. The survey is to determine how satisfied water users are with services delivered by service providers in the district. Read more...
Dans le cadre de la mise en œuvre du Programme national d’approvisionnement en eau potable et d’assainissement (PN-AEPA) à l’horizon 2015, le ministère de l’eau, des aménagements hydrauliques et de l’assainissement a initié une étude diagnostique auprès des communes du Burkina Faso afin de... Read more...
Rural and semi-urban "communes", or municipalities, need a framework to help them monitor public water services. The sector has identified the creation of such a framework as one of the priority actions for 2013 in the context of the National Water and Sanitation Programme (PNAEPA). The task is... Read more...
Reducing downtime of hand pumps using sms technology, Ghana. Read more...
Water service monitoring in Ghana: findings from three districts. Read more...