The NDPC selected three districts in Ghana - Bongo, Wassa East and Asutifi North - to highlight successes and challenges in improving access to water... Read more...
Key concepts and case examples from pan-European countries were presented at the webinar ‘Don’t forget the small ones’. Read more...
Pure water has become a powerful selling point for communities in the Wassa East district of Ghana, proving that people will indeed pay for water if they can be sure it is safe. Read more...
Bongo district is increasing its reliance on small town water systems to provide safe water in areas where the population is more concentrated. Deep boreholes provide water to storage tanks and standpipes across the area – with the potential also to make household connections. Read more...
Asaloko is a small community in the Bongo district where lives have been transformed through the introduction of safe water and effective sanitation. Householders no longer carry water long distances, children are better able to learn and the whole environment has been cleaned up. Read more...
Asutifi North district was one of the three selected districts where successes and challenges in the provision of water and sanitation services were collected. Read more...
Bongo District in Upper East Region, is one of the driest areas of Ghana with a population of just over 103,000 people. More than 30 boreholes had to be taken out of use because of dangerously high levels of fluoride in some underground water, causing damage to the bones and teeth of the people who... Read more...
Wassa East in Western Region is an overwhelmingly rural area with a population of more than 105,000 people. The district was facing a water crisis in 2015. About six out of every ten water facilities were non-functional, and payment systems had largely broken down. The District Assembly launched a... Read more...
When Wassa East District Assembly audited 202 water points in 2015 as part of the SMARter WASH project they found that 50% were not functional. They developed a four-year Sustainable WASH Plan to ensure sustainable access to safe water for all communities in the district. Read more...
Ugandan NGO network calls on the national government to prioritise access to safe water. Read more...
Through source security, service provision and waste management, the state of Bihar has used a holistic approach to ensure sustainability of services. Read more...
A review of rural water service delivery and water quality. Read more...
Nearly 10 million Ugandans face multiple vulnerabilities that account for their marginalisation and exclusion from WASH services. Read more...
The NGO Water for Good believes it is possible to strengthen systems in fragile states by having a long-term in-country presence, plugging short-term... Read more...
An indigenous movement helps women and people living with disabilities advocate for their rights in public platforms. Read more...
An approach is developed to assess WASH risks in marginal populations that are poorly understood and served through conventional approaches. Read more...
This report summarises the strengths of the decentralised local systems that deliver services in two locations in Ethiopia, describing key actors,... Read more...
Watershed report with recommendations on social inclusion for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs' WASH strategy 2016-2030. Read more...
A call for commitment, transformative thinking, engagement, integration and disaggregated data production. Read more...
The era of eyes on, hands off are gone! Responsibility for rural water and sanitation shifts from local government to new national agency. Read more...