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The WASH Sector in Uganda is awash with case studies of innovations that have transformed communities. Every so often, sector actors gather in different forums and share experiences on what they are each doing and the emancipation arising from their interventions. At sub-county, district and even... Read more...
The Lira District Water and Sanitation Coordination Committee (DWSCC) got a shot in the arm when Triple-S offered to be the Secretariat for the committee. The offer followed a meeting between the Triple-S Lira District Learning Facilitator, Robert Otim and the District Water Officer Engineer Omoko... Read more...
CWSA is leading the adoption of a Service Delivery Approach in Ghana as a way of improving rural water service delivery. Read more...
Why, despite concerted efforts by governments, donors, and NGOs, do nearly a billion people still lack safe water? Read more...
Instead of simply counting beneficiaries, Water for People uses sustainability as their measure of success. Read more...
UNICEF's sustainability checklist looks at institutional, social, technical and financial indicators to evaluate the sustainability of rural water supply projects. Read more...
The long-term sustainability of investments in rural water has long been a problem. There can be no single blueprint for institutional frameworks, policies, service delivery models and technologies. What works in one place, doesn’t necessarily work in another. However, we do know from long... Read more...
Plan International's global review of their expenditures on water supply and sanitation takes into account the cost of implementation, software components and post-construction support. Read more...
The concept of ‘water-person-years’ (WPY) is a new way of measuring the impact of investments. Assessing investments in WPY over a defined period of time, allows for a more efficient allocation of resources, and calls for a rethinking of the current development approach. Measuring in WPY is... Read more...
While the problem of poor sustainability - and the threat it poses to achieving the MDGs - may be well recognised, concrete steps for addressing it are considerably less clear. Triple-S, an IRC initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently completed a 13-country study to... Read more...