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Despite investing US$ 486 million in rural water supply in Tanzania between 2007-2014, coverage is stagnating and even declining. Who is to blame? Read more...
Districts in Uganda still have to grapple with two big challenges including ineffective management of water sources and inadequate funding for... Read more...
The relatively low allocation of financial resources towards recurrent costs of rural water suppy in Uganda works against the delivery of adequate... Read more...
In 2014, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and IRC have started a collaboration to pilot the life-cycle cost approach in the context of refugee camps. Read more...
The essentials of creating actionable monitoring systems for lasting results. Read more...
Systematic planning, inventory updates, and financial forecasting for assets carried out, and asset ownership clearly defined. Read more...
In 2013, IRC/ Triple-S Uganda conducted an assessment of the performance of the Service Delivery Model for point water sources. Findings show that there was generally a low service levels but ironically, users were satisfied. This working paper attempts to explain the reasons for that paradox. Read more...
IRC Burkina Faso a demandé à un opérateur privé s'il était possible d'améliorer la qualité de service des PMH sans augmenter le tarif payé par les usagers. La réponse est : oui, mais il faut changer l'échelle de gestion de la maintenance. Read more...
Cette publication a pour objectif de présenter les préoccupations et les pistes de solutions identifiées par l es acteurs impliqués dans la gestion... 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...
Looking at the Alorsekope community's water supply situation in Ghana. Read more...
This twenty minute feature film looks into the sustainability issues of rural and peri-urban water, sanitation and hygiene services Read more...
Many rural water systems in Ghana fail prematurely. This is estimated to be around 30 percent at any given point in time. Sometimes, these failures are attributed to a lack of clearly defined roles and responsibilities for sector actors and institutions. It is often the case that, once water... Read more...
Email requests can sometimes trigger the most interesting thoughts and ideas. Read more...
It would be easy, and wrong, to say that global conferences rarely deliver results, for sometimes they offer brand new ways of seeing things. Read more...
Component costs and drivers are assessed in a new research paper. Read more...
Based on national standards, the 7 boreholes and 3 standpipes in the village of Komsilga, Burkina Faso, are sufficient to supply water to 3,600 people. Since only 1,500 people live in the village, you might think that they had water in abundance. Read more...