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A seminar looking at monitoring of decentralised delivery of water sanitation and hygiene services in West Africa. Read more...
Report assessing level of compliance with regulations in eight communes of the Sahel region. Read more...
Worldwide, traditional toilets are letting people down, with about 2.6 billion people using unsafe ones or defecating in the open. Read more...
An WHO initiative implemented by Water and Sanitation for Africa (WSA). Read more...
High breakdown rates of systems in rural Burkina Faso are the visible results of still poorly functioning water supply services. But in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's capital, WASHCost found an example of how the water sector could be organized, by looking at the model of ONEA water company which is... Read more...
IRC has published a research document on the cost, performance and regulation of water services in small towns, in Burkina Faso. This research applies the Life-Cycle Cost Approach and the Service Delivery Approach to assess and compare the cost and the performance of water services provided by... Read more...
IRC's webinar of November 2013 brought together experiences on Self-supply on water services from East and West Africa. Read more...
Video illustrating the challenge facing technology to provide sustainable water services. Read more...
High coverage figures do not guarantee that citizens have reliable access to safe drinking water. In fact, there are often great disparities and seasonal fluctuations in services received. This is clearly apparent from results of the recent monitoring survey on current water service levels in... Read more...
The Technology Applicability Framework (TAF) provides a comprehensive assessment of sustainability indicators and considers the perspectives of technology users, producers and those introducing a technology. Read more...
Implementing the life-cycle costs approach in Burkina Faso. Read more...
Developing, testing and using Service Delivery Indicators in Burkina Faso. Read more...
Presentations shared during the Triple-S Annual Review and Planning Meeting (ARAP) in Fort Portal Uganda, 6th-11th May 2013. 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...
IRC and the Ministry for Water, Hydraulic Infrastructure and Sanitation of Burkina Faso have decided in this international year of water cooperation to take action together to develop and promote sustainable WASH services in Burkina Faso. On October 1, 2013 they have signed a Memorandum of... Read more...
The Ministry for Water, Hydraulic Infrastructure and Sanitation of Burkina Faso represented by Dr. Mamounata Belem Ouedraogo, and IRC, represented in Burkina Faso by Mr. Hermann Juste Nansi, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on October 1, 2013 to strengthen their collaboration and to put... Read more...
Despite increasing investments and a shift to a service delivery logic towards rural water in 2007, sustainability of rural water services remains problematic. This short presentation is about the development of service delivery indicators to better identify sustainability problems. This... 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...
In Ouagadougou, the WASHCost team found an example of how the water sector could be organized, by looking at existing initiatives using the life-cycle cost approach. Read more...