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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...
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...
The Uganda Ministry of Water and Environment started to strengthen the community based operation & maintenance (O&M) support structures through the formation of Hand Pump Mechanics Associations (HPMAs) in 2011. The HPMAs have to be active in 80% of the districts in the financial year 2011/... Read more...
The Country Director of IRC Ghana, Mrs Vida Duti has presented an anecdote of the Road Travelled on piloting the Water Service Delivery Approach in Ghana. 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...
The Country Director of IRC Ghana, Mrs Vida Duti has a presented an anecdote of the Road Travelled in piloting water service delivery approach in Ghana. Read more...
Ghana’s Minister for Finance and Economic Planning, Dr Kwabena Duffuor joined delegates from 30 other developing countries to participate in the 2 nd Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) High Level Meeting on April 20,2012 at the World Bank in Washington, DC. Read more...
The Chief Executive Officer of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA), Mr Clement Bugase has called for the lessons from the Triple-S Project to be shared with non-pilots districts. Mr Bugase believes the approach used by the Triple-S Project can already kick-start a change in mind set... 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...