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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...
WASHCost Mozambique developed indicators for service levels associated with sanitation facilities. The four service levels (improved, basic, limited, and no service) were used to assess sanitation facilities that are currently available to Mozambicans. Read more...
Avaliação dos serviços de saneamento nas áreas rurais e peri-urbanas de Moçambique. A WASHCost desenvolveu uma serie de indicadores para cobrir os níveis do serviço associado às instalações de saneamento e usou esses indicadores para fazer uma avaliação mais abrangente das instalaçoes do saneamento... Read more...
Análise dos custos de construção de infra-estruturas de saneamento rural e peri-urbano. Read more...
O sector de Água, Saneamento e Higiene – ASH possui informação limitada relativa aos custos e seu historial. Para responder a este défice, vimos que publicações com base nos contratos desencadeiam uma discussão vigorosa nos custos unitários. Esta informação está neste momento a ser usada para... Read more...
WASHCost realizou ao longo do mês de Março de 2012 um levantamento com vista a apurar os custos de esvaziamento das latrinas avançadas (boas latrinas num lugar definitivo) nas zonas periurbanas da Cidade de Maputo. 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...
An overview of the life-cycle costs approach to WASH service sustainability in Ghana. Read more...
Dans le cadre de la semaine du développement durable, la Coopération française au Bénin a organisé le 18 avril 2012, en collaboration avec le ministère de l’environnement et la commission nationale du développement durable une table ronde sur les enjeux … 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...
Lors d’un entretien avec les Palabres de l’Eau, Mme Ouédraogo, Directrice de développement des technologies et d’ouvrages d’assainissement au Ministère de l’Agriculture et de l’Hydraulique, nous livre quelques éléments de réflexion sur le mauvais score du Burkina Faso en matière … Read more...
L’eau, c’est la matière la plus importante au monde. Aucune communauté, aucuns êtres vivants, aucune chose qui respire ne peut exister sans eau. Elle est présente partout ou la vie s’installe et la vie s’efface partout ou l’eau disparait. Dans le milieu traditionnel africain l’eau est le symbole de... Read more...
Some 60 ministers responsible for finance, water, sanitation and hygiene portfolios from over 30 developing countries will participate in the 2nd Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) High Level Meeting on 20 April 2012 at the World Bank in Washington, DC. Together with representatives from donor... Read more...
WaterHackathon—a collaborative event between software developers and designers to solve water problems—blogged about the benefits and limitations of Field Level Operations Watch (FLOW). Representatives of Water For People, the World Bank, and IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre shared... Read more...
Residents of East Gonja District discuss challenges associated with the service levels of water facilities in their Local Government Area. Read more...
The Triple-S Project is piloting the Service Delivery Approach in three regions of Ghana: namely the Volta, Brong Ahafo and the Northern Regions. Read more...
The Executive Committee of the East Gonja District has pledged it's commitment to improve water supply to its residents. The commitment was made at a meeting to discuss the state of water systems and management structures in the district. Read more...
Ce mat Chaque année 18 900 burkinabé dont 15 400 enfants meurent prématurément de maladies liées au mauvais assainissement - Photo : Anne MIMAULT in la presse écrite et électronique titrait sur les 86 milliards de F CFA que coûte annuellement au Burkina Faso le faible taux d’assainissement du pays... Read more...