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Though not listed among the critical requirements for sustainable management of water facilities, bylaws are crucial to ensure good use and maintenance of sources. Communities through their Water User Committees often institute bylaws but enforcement is usually an uphill task. In the recent... Read more...
In October 2010, Triple-S Uganda spearheaded the process of reviving the WASH coordination in Lira district. Since then the District Water and Sanitation Coordination Committee (DWSCC) has held quarterly meetings, the latest being in May 2012 where key resolutions were passed, aimed at enhancing... Read more...
When the Ministry of Water and Environment in Uganda undertook to promote the formation of Hand Pump Mechanics Associations (HPMAs) as a way of enhancing functionality of rural water services, many districts started supporting the formation and operationalisation of the associations. With support... 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...
Sustainability is on top of the list of countries, of development partners and of IRC. Now that we know about the high break down rates of pumps and pipes, we are alarmed. And we should be! Not only because breakdowns are a waste of investment and a waste of tax payers’ money, but because people... Read more...
Chemisto Satya Ali, Water, sanitation and hygiene advisor, in the Rwenzori Portfolio at SNV Uganda relates about the joint initiative of IRC/Triple-S Uganda, Makare University, SNV Uganda and WaterAid Uganda, to introduce the use mobile phones in monitoring water services in Uganda. This video was... Read more...
Seth Damasah, Head of the District Water and Sanitation Team of Akatsi District in the Volta Region in Ghana, describes how they have recently starting to use the FLOW technology, to monitor water services in Ghana. Read more...
A message from the Country Coordinator of Triple-S Uganda, on the occasion of the World Water Day 2012 Read more...
“Closing the gap: WASH sector devolution and decentralisation in Malawi” takes a close look at how donor financing and lack of awareness about access to funds for both infrastructure and capacity building can be better aligned; particularly in Malawi’s decentralised water sector. Read more...
Mrs Vida Duti, Ghana Country Director for IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, has emphasized the need for a national framework for monitoring WASH services in an interview on national radio . Read more...
In October 2011, during its annual Joint Sector Review, the Uganda Ministry of Water and Environment resolved to promote the formation of Hand Pump Mechanics Associations (HPMAs) as a way of enhancing sustainability of rural water services. Read more...
After two and a half years of implementing the Project in Ghana, the Triple-S Project is already looking into the future and asking , “what will our legacy in Ghana be and how to address the issue of scaling up the Project?”. Read more...
Scale, and associated words and phrases, such as ‘scaling up’, ‘large scale’, ‘appropriate scale’ and ‘economies of scale’ are both central to development discourse and often misunderstood or interpreted in different ways. As scale is at the heart of IRC’s work on services delivery, this note seeks... Read more...
Ghana shared her experience of monitoring sustainable services using the FLOW technology during the 4 th Africa Water Week held in Cairo, Egypt from May 14 to 18, 2012. Read more...
Vida Duti of Triple-S Ghana offers insight into how Ghana is making the shift from a focus on infrastructure to a focus on service delivery--revealing not just the country's progress but also the struggle inherent in any change process. Read more...
The Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) has adopted the Service Delivery Approach to providing rural water and sanitation services in Ghana. Read more...
The Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) has held its 2011 Annual Review Conference in Kumasi from April 23 to 26, 2012 under the theme “Tracking functionality of WASH facilities - A key to sustainable services”. Participants were drawn from the ten regional offices of CWSA and selected... Read more...
Vida Duti, Triple-S Ghana leader, heads a team of ten people who are hosted by the Community Water and Sanitation Agency. In seven short video clips, Vida talks about how the Ghanaian water sector is moving towards sustainable rural water service delivery. Read more...
The Uganda Ministry of Water and Environment started to strengthen the community based operation & maintenance (O&M) support structures through the formation of Hand Pump Mechanics Associations (HPMAs) in 2011. The HPMAs have to be active in 80% of the districts in the financial year 2011/... Read more...