Find out about what IRC is doing and what is going on in the world of water, sanitation and hygiene. Use the filters to narrow down your search.
A new joint initiative in Ghana aims to ensure that monitoring information is effectively used to keep water and sanitation services working. Read more...
Prepared by Vida Duti and Emmanuel Gaze; presented at the Triple-S Annual Review and Planning Meeting (ARAP), Fort Portal Uganda, 6th-11th May 2013 Read more...
Triple-S Ghana shares results of the baseline assessment of the status of service levels, service providers and support functions, in Akatsi, Sunyani West and East Gonja districts in the Volta, Brong Ahafo and Northern regions respectively. Read more...
“There is the need for sector learning to address challenges facing the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector in Ghana,” says Regional Director of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency. Read more...
Prepared by Chimbar Tom Laari; presented at the Triple-S Annual Review and Planning Meeting (ARAP), Fort Portal Uganda, 6th-11th May 2013. Read more...
Reducing downtime of hand pumps using sms technology, Ghana. Read more...
Water service monitoring in Ghana: findings from three districts. Read more...
From testing monitoring service delivery indicators and tools in 3 pilot districts by the CWSA and Triple-S to applying monitoring at scale in 64 Ghanaian districts, one quarter of the country. That is what will happen in the framework of SMARTerWASH in the coming 3 years. Read more...
The Sunyani District has embarked on a second round of data collection on functionality and service levels. Read more...
Presentation by Benedict Tuffuor of TREND (Ghana) on the use of the Technology Applicability Framework (TAF) to provide recommendations for improvement on the Rope Pump within the Ghanaian context, 3 June 2013 Read more...
Sustaining water facilities in Ghana’s rural areas is challenging. Villages are in charge of repairs, but often don’t have the money for it. Read more...
The Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) is leading Triple-S in Ghana in partnership with IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre . Read more...
An animation illustrating the relationship between life-cycle costs and the service delivered. Read more...
IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre's WASHCost project has released an animation that has been created to help us understand how the life-cycle costs and the service delivered are connected. The life-cycle cost approach can be used to increase financial sustainability and to stop the... Read more...
The Triple-S Ghana project has concluded and is sharing a report of a baseline study on the status of rural water facilities in Ghana.The report presents a synthesis of the results of a baseline assessment of the status of service levels, service providers and support functions in three districts... Read more...
A Ghana Television (GTV) news item on the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector stakeholders meeting to form a learning and sharing platform in Ho, the Volta Regional capital of Ghana. Read more...
Stakeholders in the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector in the Volta Region have met in Ho to discuss the establishment of a platform to enhance sharing of ideas and knowledge in the region. It is to help discuss how best to synchronize projects and initiatives for efficient water and... Read more...
The Chief Executive Officer of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) has reiterated the need for facilities to be functional in order to ensure sustainability of service delivery. That is why efforts by the Triple-S project to monitor issues of functionality has been very laudable. This... Read more...
In this folder you can find the presentations related to the joint session on cost effectiveness of sanitation and hygiene interventions Read more...
Dr. Kwabena Nyarko-WASHCost Ghana Country Director and Mrs Vida Duti - IRC Ghana Country Director talk about the need to plan for Capital Maintenance Expenditure as s prerequisite for sustainable Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) service delivery. Read more...