The Akatsi District Assembly has collected baseline data on functionality and sustainability of water services using mobile phone technology. Environmental Health Officials and members of the District Water and Sanitation Team were trained through the Triple-S Project as enumerators to collect data using a smart phone with the Field Level Operations Watch (FLOW) software.
Published on: 24/02/2012
The Triple-S Project is jointly implemented by the Community Water and Sanitation Agency and IRC the International Water and Sanitation Centre in Ghana. The Project is piloting the Service Delivery Approach in the Akatsi District.
The enumerators recorded data from over 230 water facilities checking for their functionality, reliability, governance, financial management and operations. FLOW was chosen to help the district better determine whether the various water facilities were working or failing to determine the level of support needed to make them sustainable.
Watch Mr. Godwin Dogbe, the Supervisor of the Akatsi District Environmental Health Officers talk about his experience using the smart phone as a data collection tool. He also talks about how this technology if deployed nationwide can impact on planning.
