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Stockholm World Water Week Seminar to address how ICT can improve transparency and accountability. Nick Dickinson, author of Triple-S Working Paper ‘Using ICT for monitoring', to present. Read more...
A capacity building workshop on Service Delivery Approach (SDA) and Life Cycle Cost Approach (LCCA) for selected District Assembly staff has been held in Akatsi in the Volta Region. Read more...
A ‘User Satisfaction Survey’ of water users has been carried out in the Akatsi South District of the Volta Region. The survey is to determine how satisfied water users are with services delivered by service providers in the district. Read more...
“There is the need for sector learning to address challenges facing the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector in Ghana,” says Regional Director of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency. Read more...
The Akatsi North District has taken steps to repair 20 broken down hand pumps in the district to improve water facility functionality and service delivery. 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...
Prepared by Chimbar Tom Laari; presented at the Triple-S Annual Review and Planning Meeting (ARAP), Fort Portal Uganda, 6th-11th May 2013. Read more...
Reducing downtime of hand pumps using sms technology, Ghana. Read more...
Water service monitoring in Ghana: findings from three districts. 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 Sunyani District has embarked on a second round of data collection on functionality and service levels. Read more...
The Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) and the Triple-S project Ghana, has met with stakeholders in the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector to discuss issues on sustaining water service delivery in the sector. It was under the theme: “Sustaining Water Service Delivery: Innovations... Read more...
A new tool makes it possible to test where sector-wide water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) policies and practices are strong and where improvements can be made. It has been developed by the Triple-S programme of the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre. Read more...
Rather than installing more pumps or building more latrines, NGO Engineers Without Borders (EWB) Canada aims to build a more effective sector. A new case study examines their strategy and the results. Read more...
Uganda has done well in terms of expanding coverage but, like many countries, it struggles to sustain water services. What do those involved say about the challenges and possible solutions? Read more...
The Triple-S initiative is about taking the best international thinking available, combining it with extensive Ugandan knowledge and expertise, and adapting it to the situation on the ground. There is a lot that the Ugandan water sector is doing well, and Triple-S is taking these positive examples... Read more...
The Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) is leading Triple-S in Ghana in partnership with IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre . Read more...
Asset management is "the combination of management, financial, economic, engineering and other practices applied to physical assets with the objective of providing the required level of service in the most cost-effective manner" (National Asset Management Steering Group, 2006). In practical terms... Read more...
Life-cycle costs represent the aggregate costs of ensuring delivery of adequate, equitable and sustainable WASH services indefinitely to a population in a specified area. These costs include: Capital expenditure on hardware and software (CapEx) Operating and minor maintenance expenditure (OpEx)... Read more...
Capacity support refers to support activities towards water service authorities and includes, the provision of technical assistance, monitoring and training of service authority staff around the key functions they are responsible for. Read more...