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Achieving SDG6 needs continued dedication but sometimes appreciation of hard work is welcome. Read more...
Video explores role of local government in the delivery of sustainable WASH services in Ghana, Burkina Faso and Uganda. Read more...
Monitoring and awareness raising have helped the commune of Gorgadji collect fees for preventive maintenance of waterpoints and take steps towards sustainable water supply services. Read more...
What will rural water supply look like in the future? And will it include the handpump or are there viable, and preferable, options? Read more...
High breakdown rates of systems in rural Burkina Faso are the visible results of still poorly functioning water supply services. But in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's capital, WASHCost found an example of how the water sector could be organized, by looking at the model of ONEA water company which is... Read more...
Implementing the life-cycle costs approach in Burkina Faso. Read more...
Developing, testing and using Service Delivery Indicators in Burkina Faso. Read more...
Presentations shared during the Triple-S Annual Review and Planning Meeting (ARAP) in Fort Portal Uganda, 6th-11th May 2013. Read more...
Despite increasing investments and a shift to a service delivery logic towards rural water in 2007, sustainability of rural water services remains problematic. This short presentation is about the development of service delivery indicators to better identify sustainability problems. This... Read more...
Rural and semi-urban "communes", or municipalities, need a framework to help them monitor public water services. The sector has identified the creation of such a framework as one of the priority actions for 2013 in the context of the National Water and Sanitation Programme (PNAEPA). The task is... Read more...
A new IRC- Triple-S/GLOWS/WA-WASH research paper analyses the absolute and relative value of each cost component of a water service (capital investment, operating costs, rehabilitation cost, support costs) and looks into each component's cost drivers. 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...