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Water for People has helped Sagar and Patharpratima boost coverage and improve sustainability. Read more...
Responsabilisées pour apporter une assistance technique aux communes dans l’approvisionnement en eau, les directions régionales peinent à jouer leur rôle d’où la nécessité de les former. Read more...
The rural water sub sector in Uganda has relatively well developed WASH policies that clearly define responsibilities of different stakeholders right from National to Decentralized levels of service delivery. Read more...
A special issue of ' Water Alternatives' journal looks at trends in water services in rural areas. Read more...
Looking at what can be done to bring professionalism into community-based water supply. Read more...
How can NGOs and donors partner more effectively with government to meet the challenges of delivering WASH services that last? The WASH Sustainability Forum tackled this issue. Report now on-line. Read more...
In March 2013, CONASA, approved Honduras first every national policy for water and sanitation. Read more...
Initié par Triple-S et l’ensemble du secteur, un cadre communal de monitoring des services publics d’eau potable, a été développé au cours du premier semestre 2013. En début juillet, il a été présenté dans les communes d’Arbinda et de Gorgadji où il sera expérimenté jusqu’en septembre 2014. Read more...
Convaincu par le projet Triple-S, la direction régionale de l’eau, des aménagements hydrauliques et de l’assainissement (DREAHA) s’est engagée auprès d’IRC et des communes d’Arbinda et de Gorgadji pour la mise en place d’un cadre communal de monitoring des services publics d’eau potable. Read more...
A new report shows the impact of post-construction support on rural water supply in Colombia. Read more...
In Uganda, the Mobile for Water project gives communities an SMS hotline to a handpump mechanic. Read more...
At the World Water Week, SWA made a commitment to play a pivotal role to contribute to and help shape the means of implementation, as well as follow-up and review of the water, sanitation and hygiene related targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 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...
How can NGOs and governments work together more effectively to ensure water services that last? A Uganda dialogue identifies concrete steps to improve coordination and joint learning. Read more...
The Cape Verdian government has approved the creation of two new water and sanitation bodies: the national water and sanitation council CNAS and the national water and sanitation agency ANAS. The reform of the water and sanitation sector is being supported by the US Millennium Challenge Corporation... 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 group of Indian officials led by Saraswati Prasad IAS, Joint Secretary, and Government of India is in IRC for a two-week training course and exposure visit on sustainable services that last. Read more...
Reducing downtime of hand pumps using sms technology, Ghana. Read more...
Rather than installing more pumps or building more latrines, NGO Engineers Without Borders (EWB) Canada aims to build a more effective sector. A new case study examines their strategy and the results. Read more...
IRC welcomes the final report of the UN High Level Panel (HLP), which puts forward recommendations for post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While we are happy that the report includes an ambitious goal of universal access to water and sanitation by 2030, it is disappointing that it lacks... Read more...