New book tells how partnerships, district planning and learning alliances achieve impact at community level in Ghana. Read more...
This summary presents preliminary findings from recent network research in Ghana. These are shared to engage a broader community in current research, and should not be taken as firm conclusions. Questions, comments, and feedback are greatly appreciated. Read more...
The Community Water and Sanitation Agency takes a unified approach with new single source documents. Read more...
Helping Ghana to achieve its vision of providing universal water and sanitation services by 2025. Read more...
Looking at the Alorsekope community's water supply situation in Ghana. Read more...
Territorial approaches to rural water supply were a hot topic at this week's Triple-S annual meeting. Read more...
Dora depends on one community handpump. How are her satisfaction levels being measured, and what can we learn from them? Read more...
Many rural water systems in Ghana fail prematurely. This is estimated to be around 30 percent at any given point in time. Sometimes, these failures are attributed to a lack of clearly defined roles and responsibilities for sector actors and institutions. It is often the case that, once water... Read more...
In March 2012, UNICEF and WHO announced that the Millennium Development Goal for water had been met. But that's just the start. Read more...
Two weeks ago, the “management and support” working group of the RWSN had its first meeting. This meeting focused specifically on management models and support arrangements for piped water supply in small towns. Read more...
The Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) is in the process of finalising a number of service delivery documents to guide the rural water and sanitation sub-sector in Ghana. The documents will critically enhance service delivery in the rural water sector. 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...
I have argued at times for the need for post-construction support to rural water supply, and so have various publications from IRC and others over the past decade. However, there has been critique to this, stating that there is little evidence that shows that such help helps improving rural water... Read more...
Could lack of definition be undermining the impact of effective but costly support? 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...
The latest trend in Dutch politics is to label anything of parties of another political colour as hobbyism. Read more...
While the problem of poor sustainability - and the threat it poses to achieving the MDGs - may be well recognised, concrete steps for addressing it are considerably less clear. Triple-S, an IRC initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently completed a 13-country study to... Read more...