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Smarter emergency measures against COVID-19 needed to ensure lasting solutions in service provision. Read more...
Interview with David DeArmey of Water for Good about using IRC tools in a fragile context. Read more...
Public utilities are expanding into rural areas, are they the future of water and sanitation services? Read more...
This is the first of a series of blog posts on building resilient WASH systems in fragile contexts. Read more...
The global community has a decade to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals – can we? Read more...
How to hold governments accountable for timely bill payments to water utilities. Read more...
In Asutifi North district in Ghana, the District Assembly is making a bold attempt to achieve district-wide full coverage by 2030. Read more...
In recent years, donors have been making greater use of Payment by Results (PbR) approaches to fund development programmes. Read more...
Water and sanitation comprise an increasingly important focus for global health and development philanthropy, but the approach has often been piecemeal, resulting in broken pipes and pumps, disillusioned donors, and suffering beneficiaries. 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...
How a blending of service delivery models and finance within a district may hold the solution to financing safe water supplies for everyone. Read more...
The Indian Government is now embarking on another ambitious 'Jal Jeevan Mission', promising piped water to every household in India by 2024. Read more...
Lean government needs a lean private sector to deliver safe water and sanitation to everyone. Both are part of an effective public system. Read more...
Why even social entrepreneurs need strong government. Read more...
A WaterAid thematic review. Read more...
WaterAid publishes new resource guide. Read more...
A new global guidance document on the District-Wide Approach. Read more...
Linking WASH and IWRM, as demanded by SDG 6, is essential but hard. With pragmatism and a problem based approach it can be done. Read more...
Meeting Sustainable Development Goal 6 requires solutions that focus on integrated rather than sectoral approaches. Read more...
Achieving sustainable WASH services requires problem-based approaches focusing on a specific watershed or municipality. Read more...