Country: Ghana | Partners: Akvo and Skyfox | Client: RVO | Donor: Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs | Duration: 2013-2016 | Value: 3,800,000 euros
Published on: 01/01/2013
SMARTerWASH a multi-partner joint initiative to ensure monitoring information is effectively used to keep water and sanitation services working.
In SMARTerWASH Mobile Monitoring for Rural Water and Sanitation Services that Last IRC partnered with Akvo and Skyfox to provide Technical Assistance to the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) to improve the ICT infrastructure in order to refine and scale up service monitoring indicators and tools for the rural water subsector of Ghana. The initiative has led to the upgrading of the rural water monitoring system (DIMES), and the establishment of interoperability with the Akvo FLOW web-based system which has created a database of water facilities and their service levels in 131 districts in Ghana. The analysis has informed the nation on the state of rural and peri-urban water services.
The DGIS PPP SMARTerWASH was a joint initiative (Public Private Partnership) with matching funds from the RVO (Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland) of the Government of the Netherlands.
Three smart components were operationalised:
Watch the SMARTerWASH videos to learn more.
A series of four videos explore the work and lessons learnt during the SMARTerWASH project in Ghana. 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...
Join IRC at two side sessions during this the 39th WEDC International Conference in Kumasi, Ghana. Read more...
The SMARTerWASH initiative in Ghana upgrades ICT tools for continuous monitoring. Read more...
The Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) shared baseline data on functionality and service levels of existing rural water and small town water facilities in about six regions at the Ghana Rural Water Forum in Accra on October 7, 2015. Read more...
The SMARTerWASH project presents monitoring data. Read more...
Good news from Ghana! IRC Ghana and its contribution to help build Ghana's rural water monitoring seems to be going very well. "Indeed, we are firmly on the path to support the establishment of a national system for rural water monitoring in Ghana", says country director Vida Duti. Read more...
Helping Ghana to achieve its vision of providing universal water and sanitation services by 2025. 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...
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 costs of continuous monitoring at scale: insights from SMARTerWASH, Ghana. Read more...
While writing the end-report of the SMARTerWASH Project, it was good to look back and reflect on the scale of the project and the challenges faced and ahead. Read more...
People in Ghana like metaphors. Metaphors make their hearts beat; metaphors also soften what may be too harsh to say directly. Maybe both meanings of metaphors are true for the great efforts of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) to create a monitoring system for water supply in rural... Read more...
The story of the SmarterWASH project in Ghana; the achievements, challenges, experiences, lessons learned over the years. Read more...
Fact sheet providing an overview of rural and small towns water services in the Upper West Region, Ghana. Read more...
Fact sheet providing an overview of rural and small towns water services in the Western Region, Ghana. Read more...
Fact sheet providing an overview of rural and small towns water services in the Upper East Region, Ghana. Read more...
Fact sheet providing an overview of rural and small towns water services in the Northern Region, Ghana. Read more...
Fact sheet providing an overview of rural and small towns water services in the Central Region, Ghana. Read more...
Fact sheet providing an overview of rural and small towns water services in the Brong Ahafo Region, Ghana. Read more...
