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Local governments have a crucial, and increasing role to play in the provision of rural and small town water services. Often, however, they struggle to take up these tasks. In this video, representatives of national government, district local government and WASH service providers from Ghana, Burkina Faso and Uganda share their viewpoints on the challenges, the way forward and the role of national governments and development partners in the support of local governments.
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Commissioner Eng Aaron Kabirizi discusses sub-county water boards as an approach for addressing operation and maintenance.
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Financing Post-Construction Support (direct support)", is a video documentary which explores various options and opportunities for post construction support for water and sanitation facilities in Ghana. It draws largely on efforts by two of IRC Ghana's programmes, the Triple-S and WASHCost projects in facilitating sector dialogue and innovations to addresses the situation.
This video was produced in collaboration with the Ghana Watsan Journalists Network.
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What if resources from all projects in a district were brought together? What if in addition to constructing water systems we also planned and financed for their operation and maintenance? A story about a fictitious district in the developing world, and what happened to its water supply.
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Vida Duti, leading the Triple-S project in Ghana, talks about the importance of monitoring water services to plan and direct investments. Triple-S Ghana has worked on functionality mapping using FLOW.
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Paul Nyeko Ogiramoi explains how water supply and sanitation boards at local sub-county level can make community management work.
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In Uganda 10 million people lack access to safe water. The Commissioner for Rural Water Supply and Sanitation says devolving water services closer to people and taking steps to improve functionality will achieve better services. Interview and recording by Peter McIntyre, Kabarole District, May 2013.
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'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.
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"I will see CWSA more as a regulator than an implementer of projects", says Mr Clement Bugase, Chief Executive Officer of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency. Mr Clement Bugase in video talks about the changing role of his institution as they seek to enhance its ability as a regulator more than a facilitator for the delivery of physical facilities.
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How do you set a tariff for water in a small town in a developing country, so that people can afford to pay and there is enough money to sustain the service? Lamisi Dabire from Triple-S Ghana asks the Akatsi Water and Sanitation Board, in the Volga Region, Ghana.
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