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Ghana through the Community Water and Sanitation Agency is developing a District Operational Manual (DOM) to guide the delivery of water and sanitation services at the local government level. The document is aimed to strengthen the capacity of local government officials as well as address gaps... 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...
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...
IRC, Centre international pour l’Eau et l’Assainissement, conduit sur 6 ans une initiative d’amélioration des connaissances qui permettra d’assurer un meilleur accès à l’eau et à l’assainissement des populations pauvres en milieu rural. Read more...
Tamale, the Northern Regional capital of Ghana has hosted the final in the series of Life Cycle Cost Approach (LCCA) training for selected districts in three regions of Ghana. The training is to build the capacity of the relevant technical staff involved in budgeting and planning for water,... 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...
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...
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...
Monitoring of water services delivery is a key factor for sustainability and water for all. This was the key theme of the monitoring and evaluation session at the 6th World Water Forum in Marseille in March 2012. It was observed that most approaches to monitoring focus on coverage measured in terms... Read more...
WASHCost Ghana supports the Sector Wide Approach (SWAp) development process and the Sector Strategic Development Plan (SSDP) to have the Life Cycle Costs Approach (LCCA) embedded in the WASH service delivery. Read more...
WASHTech project is using cost components of LCCA in the financial indicators for validating WASH technologies. Read more...
Mr. Clement Bugase, Chief Executive of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA), announced that the CWSA is now adopting integrated cost budgeting for its facilities in order to ensure sustainability. Integrated cost budgeting is a costing system that takes into consideration the various... Read more...
WASHCost Project Ghana has published (online) the first batch of a series of Community Reports. These communities are located in the three focus districts of the WASHCost project in the Bosomtwi (Ashanti region), Ketu South (Volta region) and East Gonja (Northern region) of Ghana. Read more...
The WASH Advocates newsletter of February 2012 mentions the positive influence of Triple-S on sustainable rural water services in Ghana. Read more...
On Friday 3rd February 2012, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre celebrated the official opening of its office in Accra, Ghana. This was an historic event for IRC, as this is the first office IRC has established outside The Netherlands since its foundation in 1968. The office will be led... Read more...
IRC is testing out FLOW in three districts in Ghana. FLOW helps the user assess whether or not facilities are functioning or are on the verge of disrepair. In this video IRC staff discusses the presentation given by Marieke Adank and Nicolas Dickinson which highlights the experiences and lessons... Read more...
How can you easiliy assess and monitor functionality of water services? IRC is testing out FLOW in three districts in Ghana, as part of the Triple-S project. FLOW helps the user assess whether or not facilities are functioning or are on the verge of disrepair. Check out this video in which Marieke... Read more...
This map contains the data on functionality and service levels. At the moment, the functionality of data points is not visible from the colour of the point when viewed on the map. View Larger Map Read more...
Vida Duti, the new IRC Country Director from January 2012, says that lack of money in village accounts to carry out repairs is one of the major reasons for service failure. Read more...
The Government of Uganda invited experts from Mozambique, Ghana, and IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre to share their experiences using the life-cycle costs approach (LCCA) to improve sector performance. This approach is raising awareness of the potential for life-cycle costs to achieve... Read more...