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Understanding the full life-cycle costs of (rural) WASH services is a big step towards increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of investments in the Ugandan WASH sector, which have become scarcer over the past year. Read more...
An overview of the presentations that were shared in the Triple-S research seminar in Kampala. Read more...
In a bid to foster participatory approaches to sustainable management of water sources in Lira and Kabarole districts, IRC/Triple-S Uganda has started organizing parish dialogues between Sub County Water Supply and Sanitation Boards (SWSSBs) and community members. Read more...
The Uganda Ministry of Water and Environment produced the District Implementation Manual (DIM) in 2007 to support and guide sector stakeholders in the implementation of water and sanitation activities. Read more...
Under pressure to improve water services, Lira sub-county considers establishing a local water and sanitation board to address issues around maintenance, fee collection and administration. Read more...
Sub-counties in Uganda's Kabarole District are excited about the potential of their new water and sanitation boards. But without financing, how can that potential be realised? Read more...
In Uganda, new water and sanitation boards at sub-county level are designed to remedy the problem of lack of capacity in water user committees—making local management more professional and effective. Read more...
The Bombo community together with the private water service provider and the Town Council developed a joint action plan towards improving water services in Bombo Town Council. The action plan shared roles and responsibilities to water service providers, town council officials, water board members,... Read more...
Uganda is establishing Hand Pump Mechanics Associations as a solution to low functionality of rural point sources. Do these associations bring better, more professional service to communities? Read more...
Learning has over the past few years taken centre stage in the Ugandan WASH sector. Different actors are working in partnership to establish learning platforms or learning alliances to assess challenges, find solutions, share lessons and scale up good practices. 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...
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...
In 2011 the Uganda Ministry of Water and Environment started to promote the formation of Hand Pump Mechanics Associations (HPMAs) as a way of enhancing sustainability of rural water services. This briefing note highlights the key issues emerging from the process thus far. Read more...
From 17 to 20th April, IRC conducted a workshop on how national WASH Resource Centre Networks (RCNs) support learning in their WASH sectors. Read more...
From its onset, the Triple-S project worked on the understanding that sustainability of rural water services cannot be achieved through a single entity but rather through strategic partnerships that work to address concerns of the entire sector. One of the methods through which the project would... Read more...
One of the key challenges contributing to non-functionality of rural water sources is the time lag between the identification of faults and the rehabilitation. This lag, in WASH parlance, is called service down-time, mainly caused by drawbacks in information flow. To reduce these information gaps... Read more...
Many African countries, including Uganda, are increasingly replacing the point source with the handpump. In order to support this change in infrastructure, water and sanitation actors in Uganda are applying the Water Supply and Sanitation Board (WSSB) model as an answer to the traditional community... Read more...
Marketing Human Excreta: A Study of Possible Ways to Dispose of Urine and Faeces from Slum Settlements in Kampala, Uganda , 2011. E Schroeder, Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). (Full-text) Some key findings include: High sociocultural barriers associated with handling... Read more...
The chairperson of Kabarole District, Uganda has hailed Triple-S intervention in the district saying it would lead to improved sustainability of water services. This was during the World Water Day celebrations in the district. Read more...
Nearly 2.2 million people die every year because of WASH-related factors, causing CSOs at the World Water Forum to that conclude that this is recipe for a humanitarian crisis. Read more...