Former Documentation and communication officer | IRC Ghana
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...
A committee looking into the costs of supporting communities and water service providers in Ghana is set to recommend a sizable increase in spending to improve functionality and sustainability in rural and peri-urban areas. Read more...
IRC Ghana has organised a Life-Cycle Cost Approach (LCCA) training for participants at the Mole Conference XXIII. The main message brought by facilitator Dr Nyarko, country director for WASHCost Ghana, was the need to properly budget for activities throughout the life-time of a system and he... Read more...
Tamale, the Northern Regional capital of Ghana has hosted the final in the series of Life Cycle Cost Approach (LCCA) training for selected districts in three regions of Ghana. The training is to build the capacity of the relevant technical staff involved in budgeting and planning for water,... Read more...
Mr. Clement Bugase, Chief Executive of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA), announced that the CWSA is now adopting integrated cost budgeting for its facilities in order to ensure sustainability. Integrated cost budgeting is a costing system that takes into consideration the various... Read more...
The Country Director for WASHCost Project Ghana, Dr Kwabena Nyarko, has called on the WASH sector in Ghana to use the Life-Cycle Cost Approach to ensure sustainability of service delivery in the sector. At the CWSA head office, Dr Nyarko said WASHCost has quantified the actual cost of delivering... Read more...