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This report on the Rural Water 'Utilitisation' project in Ghana gives a comprehensive overview on water infrastructure, services and stakeholders in the Western Region. Read more...
IRC, CWSA and partners convene side event at CSOs-led WASH conference to share project updates. Read more...
With the help of the Latter-Day Saints Charities, schools and hard-to-access communities in Asutifi North District will be getting access to safe drinking water Read more...
This project, WASH services for hard-to-reach households, was generously funded by the Latter Day Saints Charities (LDSC). The team is visiting Bronyakrom, a hard-to-reach community that to date had not been connected to a water point. Read more...
This video showcases lives transformed by access to water in Asutifi North District, Ghana. Read more...
Bongo is one of the driest regions in Ghana. The district is in a rocky zone where 103,000 people live in small towns and rural communities. The groundwater in the region has a high fluoride contents which is bad for teeth and bones. In 2015, the District Assembly started to replace the wells by... Read more...
IRC and the Safe Water Network are piloting a sustainable service delivery approach at district level. Read more...
After eight years of working in Ghana, IRC has achieved a paradigm shift in monitoring and delivery of WASH services. Read more...
The culture of neglecting maintenance needs to change. Read more...
The SMARTerWASH project presents monitoring data. Read more...
Helping Ghana to achieve its vision of providing universal water and sanitation services by 2025. Read more...
Looking at the Alorsekope community's water supply situation in Ghana. Read more...
Many rural water systems in Ghana fail prematurely. This is estimated to be around 30 percent at any given point in time. Sometimes, these failures are attributed to a lack of clearly defined roles and responsibilities for sector actors and institutions. It is often the case that, once water... Read more...
A new joint initiative in Ghana aims to ensure that monitoring information is effectively used to keep water and sanitation services working. Read more...
The Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) is in the process of finalising a number of service delivery documents to guide the rural water and sanitation sub-sector in Ghana. The documents will critically enhance service delivery in the rural water sector. Read more...
The WASH Advocates newsletter of February 2012 mentions the positive influence of Triple-S on sustainable rural water services in Ghana. Read more...
Vida Duti, the new IRC Country Director from January 2012, says that lack of money in village accounts to carry out repairs is one of the major reasons for service failure. Read more...
WASH views in the Abono community, Ghana Read more...
Water Services that Last website launched Read more...
The Country Director for WASHCost Project Ghana, Dr Kwabena Nyarko, has called on the WASH sector in Ghana to use the Life-Cycle Cost Approach to ensure sustainability of service delivery in the sector. At the CWSA head office, Dr Nyarko said WASHCost has quantified the actual cost of delivering... Read more...