'World Water Day is an opportunity for all actors to pay attention to the challenges that continue to hinder effective delivery of water services, especially to the rural population', says Jane Nabunnya Mulumba, country coordinator of the Triple-S initiative in Uganda. This video has been developed for World Water Day 2013 which was all around stakeholder cooperation.
Read more...This working paper sets out the theory of change that guides IRC's Triple-S project. At the heart of this approach is a vision of how the rural water... Read more...
Learning is critical to development, so development practitioners need to reflect on how to nurture learning processes. Read more...
This Triple-S Working Paper presents the Triple-S Principles Framework and the key concepts behind it. It provides a description of how the Principle... Read more...
Next week more than 200 practitioners and policy makers from government, civil society, private sector and donors will come together for the annual Joint Water and Environment Sector Review in Uganda to review progress and set-backs during the past year and discuss and decide on priorities for the... Read more...
In a bid to foster participatory approaches to sustainable management of water sources in Lira and Kabarole districts, IRC/Triple-S Uganda has started organizing parish dialogues between Sub County Water Supply and Sanitation Boards (SWSSBs) and community members. Read more...
Learning has over the past few years taken centre stage in the Ugandan WASH sector. Different actors are working in partnership to establish learning platforms or learning alliances to assess challenges, find solutions, share lessons and scale up good practices. Read more...
From 17 to 20th April, IRC conducted a workshop on how national WASH Resource Centre Networks (RCNs) support learning in their WASH sectors. Read more...
From its onset, the Triple-S project worked on the understanding that sustainability of rural water services cannot be achieved through a single entity but rather through strategic partnerships that work to address concerns of the entire sector. One of the methods through which the project would... Read more...
Behavioural change needs to happen at both user level and service provider level if water services are to remain sustainable. The Triple-S project promoted the need for rigorous learning processes for all water stakeholders in order to ensure services that last.
Read more...Who says traditional African community mobilisation approaches have died out? The application of the Omuhiigo approach to the Community Based Management System (CBMS) of water sources in Kabarole district, is a good case of the revival of seemingly-forgotten traditional community mobilisation... Read more...
Top item on an overloaded agenda at the moment is the upcoming mid-term assessment of our Triple-S (link) project. As we prepare a terms of reference for the exercise we’ve been engaging with a number of external thinkers to help us create something that can meet the dual objectives of judging... Read more...
The WASH Process Documentation Workshop held in Kampala, Uganda in September 2011, was successful in encouraging participants to become more enthusiastic about process documentation and its benefits. Process Documentation provides a systematic way to capture what happens in a process of change, and... Read more...
In 2010, UNDP's Poverty Group and Environment and Energy Group launched a joint project to examine to what extent the domestic private sector in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) contributes to achieving the target for access to safe water under MDG7. The project carried out in-depth case studies of three... Read more...
While the problem of poor sustainability - and the threat it poses to achieving the MDGs - may be well recognised, concrete steps for addressing it are considerably less clear. Triple-S, an IRC initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently completed a 13-country study to... Read more...