This policy brief evaluates the potential of hand pump mechanics associations to improve water facility functionality rates in rural Uganda. Read more...
The success of the scheme begins with water users reporting faults by sending a text message to their area mechanic. Read more...
New briefing note summarises discussions and lessons from some key events in 2013 on the potential of ICT to improve WASH monitoring and ultimately service delivery. Contributions by IRC, TetraTech, Akvo, and SeeSaw. Read more...
This video from the WASHTech project illustrates the challenges relating to sustainable services in WASH and how the Technology Applicability Framework (TAF) provides a systematic and participatory way of assessing and adopting technology innovation at scale, for services that last. Read more...
Two years after a district assessment of handpump functionality in Ghana, why have things got worse, rather than better? Read more...
Elder Joe is the proud secretary of a water committee managing a handpump on the outskirts of Odumase town in Ghana. But the committee would rather manage a different type of system. Read more...
Reducing downtime of hand pumps using sms technology, Ghana. Read more...
If it is possible to move in a few years from an iPod to an iPhone or and iPad, why are we in the water sector still struggling with the handpump? When can we expect the iPump 2.0? Did Steve Jobs die too early to invent this? As the naked truth about poor levels of functionality of hand pumps... Read more...