Lessons from Tanzania show that payment by results can help stakeholders achieve improved water point functionality. Read more...
Why is private sector participation in the water sector lagging in Tanzania? Read more...
Providing safe water to hard-to-reach villages in a cost-effective way in Arusha. Read more...
Menstrual Hygiene Day, my bloody favourite day of the year. Read more...
Using learning hub 'model projects' to test new approaches for projects and service delivery. Read more...
The transformation journey of the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency in Tanzania. Read more...
Successful sanitation approaches were characterized by their adaptation to the local context, community participation, built-in mechanisms that... Read more...
Pilot in Sikonge DC (Sept. 2019) Credit: DIME World Bank Is community management of water supply still feasible in Tanzania? Read more...
Tanzania's recent toilet campaign gets high-level politicians on board. Why? Read more...
The era of eyes on, hands off are gone! Responsibility for rural water and sanitation shifts from local government to new national agency. Read more...
The majority of 'last mile" households still practising open defecation were those that were defiant', socially isolated or geographically isolated. Read more...
An account of personal reflections on the shift to a systems approach. Read more...
An innovative approach to sustain open defecation free (ODF) status in rural areas by making people agents of change in their communities. Read more...
Emotional demonstrations (emo-demos) are used in behaviour-centred design to trigger behaviour changes, such as handwashing with soap, by creating... Read more...
Water access and its management are strongly influenced by gendered division of labour, communal power structures, cultural traditions, and daily... Read more...
In the Hai and Siha districts of Tanzania actors not only acknowledge, but actively harness informality to provide access to water to rural... Read more...
This blog looks at the experience of using 'Payment-by-Results' in Tanzania's water sector, and how adaptive programming is key to bridging the gap. Read more...
An in-depth inclusive analysis on country-level accountability mechanisms towards Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6) on clean water and... Read more...
Possessing a non-shared latrine neither guarantees safety to its users nor its categorisation as 'improved'. Instead, the state of the latrine, the... Read more...
Addressing WASH/IWRM linkages from a narrow problem-based perspective seems most feasible but they can also be addressed within the wider, holistic... Read more...