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Sub County Water and Sanitation Boards could help fix community management in Uganda – but only with support. Read more...
Two years after a district assessment of handpump functionality in Ghana, why have things got worse, rather than better? Read more...
Strengthening local government capacity for service delivery remains a key challenge for the water, sanitation and hygiene sector. Read more...
It would be easy, and wrong, to say that global conferences rarely deliver results, for sometimes they offer brand new ways of seeing things. Read more...
El monitoreo, el desarrollo de capacidades y el aprendizaje para la mejora a menudo se tratan como procesos separados. Al vincular el monitoreo con el desarrollo y la capacidad de aprendizaje, podemos tomar medidas para mejorar. Read more...
Independent state regulators will not be able to solve the deep-rooted water governance crisis in India, says India Country Director Dr. V. Kurian Baby. After a decade of failure, a new approach is needed: a bottom-up process of social and participatory regulation. There are enough successful... 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...
This is great news and fantastic to see USAID adopting and promoting this approach which aims to really track and better understand the underlying causes of poor sustainability in the WASH sector. Read more...
I cannot resist visiting the odd water works or taking photographs of the local water and sanitation facilities during my holidays. Read more...
During an interview about mapping rural water supply via a web-based system, we hit our first stumbling block. Read more...
Blog acerca de los retos en la implementación del SIASAR en Honduras. Read more...
Monitoring, capacity development and learning are often addressed as separate processes. But could linking them offer improvements? Read more...
Delft Symposium session takes capacity building as its central theme. Read more...
Monitoring WASH in extra-household settings is an emerging sector challenge that deserves our attention. Read more...
Monitoring and evaluation should be used for for learning, change, and ultimately better service delivery, not just accountability or project results. Read more...
Sagar is an island at the mouth of the river Ganges where it meets the Bay of Bengal. Every year in January, about half a million pilgrims visit the island to worship at the holy Ganges. The hundreds of mobile toilet units standing on the empty festival terrain during the rest of the year are... Read more...