Countries: Burkina Faso, Niger + Ghana | Partners: Winrock Int., WaterAid, CARE, IWA, RAIN, IHE, RWSN/SKAT, BPD | Client: Florida International University | Donor: USAID | Duration: 2011-2015.
Published on: 01/01/2011
The USAID West Africa Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene program (USAID-WA-WASH) was carried out between 2011 and 2015 with the overall goal of increasing sustainable access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene in Burkina Faso, Niger and Ghana. The objective of the initiative was to enable:
The initiative was funded by USAID and coordinated by Florida International University (FIU) - leader of the Global Water for Sustainability (GLOWS) consortium. Partners included: Winrock International, WaterAid, CARE, the International Water Association (IWA), RAIN, the UNESCO-IHE, IRC, RWSN/SKAT, and Building Partnerships for Development (BPD).
Within the program, IRC Burkina Faso's main task was the implementation of approaches that strengthen the sustainability and scalability of drinking water supply services. Specifically, IRC Burkina Faso had to identify deficiencies and weaknesses of management practices along the chain of supply services at the communal, provincial and national levels, and to explore possible solutions that are reproducible in other parts of the country and adapted to the sector's vision and capacity. Furthermore, IRC Burkina Faso actively encouraged the uptake of these approaches and some approaches developed by IRC in other countries. In order to do this, IRC Burkina Faso based its efforts on two proven, conceptually-grounded work methodologies: one is the "life cycle costs" approach developed in the scope of the WASHCost program (2008-2012) and the other is the "Sustainable Services at Scale" approach, known as Triple-S, which focuses on service delivery.
Some highlights and challenges we faced in 2015: Burkina Faso Read more...
To provide safe water in Burkina Faso Read more...
On the 14th and 15th of October 2014, a workshop on gender and female participation in water service provision was organized by CARE International and IRC Burkina Faso in Dori, Burkina Faso, as part of the USAID-funded West Africa Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene Initiative (WA-WASH) programme... Read more...
Report assessing level of compliance with regulations in eight communes of the Sahel region. Read more...
IRC's webinar of November 2013 brought together experiences on Self-supply on water services from East and West Africa. 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...
Systematic or systemic inequalities are grounded in our mindsets; in the way, we think, in the way we plan, in the way we see people, and in the way we interpret the rights to water and sanitation. Read more...
IRC has highlighted some useful lessons for the sector as the USAID West-Africa Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Programme is drawing to a close. Read more...
IRC Burkina Faso looked into management models that would permanently reduce the number and length of breakdowns of boreholes with hand pumps in rural Burkina Faso. Read more...
IRC Burkina Faso investigated the factors that explain why boreholes with hand pumps in the Sahel region break down so often. Read more...
The correlation between access to drinking water, health, nutrition and other development indicators is well known. At sector level, this often translates into the requirement to allocate additional funding to new infrastructure (in the rural sector, mainly to water points), that would naturally... Read more...
One of the main conditions for providing potable water services is that the service provider must be able to guarantee that the water is safe for consumption. But what happens when you live in an area where such services are not within reach? Can you be sure that the water that is available is safe... Read more...
IRC asked a private operator if it was possible to improve the service provided by hand-pump at current tariff. The answer is yes but the scale at which hand pumps are managed must change. Read more...
M&E are key to improving both the performance and the sustainability of WASH services. But how much do they cost and how should it be paid for? Read more...
An in-depth study of water provision in Burkina Faso has found that piped water systems provide a better service than handpumps, at a lower cost. Read more...
Component costs and drivers are assessed in a new research paper. Read more...
This volume is a collection of ideas and solutions with potential, and also of issues and challenges raised by IRC Burkina Faso's team and actors in... Read more...
IRC Burkina Faso has reviewed the performance of existing institutions and, in particular, their overarching regulatory framework in two... Read more...
This report focuses on defining the conditions for the establishment of an effective repair and maintenance system for hand pumps in the Sahel region. Read more...
This document presents the highlights, key issues and points in common that arose from the presentations and discussions held during the... Read more...
