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Building new partnerships and setting clear goals to leverage investment. Read more...
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation supports collective action in many countries. Ghana is proudly one of them. Read more...
The community-based management (CBM) model has often been called into question as an effective means of service provision. Read more...
Comparing of country scores after assessments of WASH systems can be both tricky and attractive. Read more...
The costs of continuous monitoring at scale: insights from SMARTerWASH, Ghana. Read more...
While writing the end-report of the SMARTerWASH Project, it was good to look back and reflect on the scale of the project and the challenges faced and ahead. Read more...
People in Ghana like metaphors. Metaphors make their hearts beat; metaphors also soften what may be too harsh to say directly. Maybe both meanings of metaphors are true for the great efforts of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) to create a monitoring system for water supply in rural... Read more...
The objective of Action Research for Learning was to strengthen the capacities of the selected partners for action research, analysis, reporting and learning. 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...
Thinking critically about how you do your work and seeing the bigger picture towards which you are working, can improve the effectiveness of your work. Read more...
The rural water and sanitation sub sector of Ghana is on a positive trajectory towards establishing an inventory of rural and small-towns water systems across the country and a continuous service monitoring process that will enable the sector to measure and report on access, functionality and... Read more...
Interpreting project monitoring reports looks set to become easier with a new dashboard developed for the Triple-S project. Read more...
Dora depends on one community handpump. How are her satisfaction levels being measured, and what can we learn from them? 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...
The costs of getting spare parts for handpumps can sometimes be higher than the costs of the parts. But a new SMS-based system might help. Read more...
The Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) in Ghana is developing a framework for assessing and monitoring water services. 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...
USAID and Rotary International's development and adoption of the powerful Sustainability Index Tool is great news. Read more...
Could lack of definition be undermining the impact of effective but costly support? Read more...