The SDG financing gap will be history, when natural infrastructure (NI) enters the economics and financing computations. Read more...
Information on existing water schemes, including functionality and other critical WASH indicators, for the planning, coordination and outcomes of... Read more...
The government's flagship Climate Resilient Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (CR-WASH) initiative focuses on lowland investments in 'resilient' technologies such as deep boreholes and more resilient piped water infrastructure. These seek to displace emergency humanitarian interventions in drought-... Read more...
An overview of policies, strategies and challenges facing the rural drinking water sector from a government perspective. Read more...
The community-based management (CBM) model has often been called into question as an effective means of service provision. Read more...
This working paper seeks to contribute to a larger analysis on whether community-based management is still a feasible option for service delivery in... Read more...
This review is the first comprehensive evaluation of the External support programs (ESP) literature. It derives a definition of external support... Read more...
This paper proposes a framework of elements that need to be in place for continued handpump functioning, and then turns this into a diagnostic device... Read more...
Making a range of good quality household water filters available to customers is an additional service and an intermediate solution until water... Read more...
Though mobile money penetration is high (72%), using mobile money for water bill payments is not top of mind and would require additional awareness... Read more...
Perceived poor performance of hand pumped boreholes has been a persistent problem in Africa Read more...
Since my first post about some first-hand experience of running a WASH business within the Ethiopian business framework I've been wondering how much of the challenges is due to being a foreign business. Maybe the thought occurred to a few readers. Read more...
Ethiopia is currently ranked 161st out of 190 countries for "Ease of Doing Business". My first post is about why that might be the case, and how the recent new government has the potential to have an impact as it seeks to harness the potential of the private sector. Read more...
This paper summarises results of a study about the demand for rural water facility spares, the organisation of supply chains and the O&M systems... Read more...
A review of financial, governance and technical challenges impacting the sustainability of rural water supply schemes in Sarlahi and Rautahat... Read more...
This paper presents reflections on how consumer WASH markets are being developed and the role of different types of actors in the system. Read more...
How the Aquaya Institute selected a system strengthening approach to overcome the sustainability constraints that other water quality monitoring... Read more...