Sustainability of water supply services remains an uphill challenge cutting across many countries, with several factors undermining the effectiveness of Operation and Maintenance (O&M).
The government's flagship Climate Resilient Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (CR-WASH) initiative focuses on lowland investments in 'resilient' technologies such as deep boreholes and more resilient piped water infrastructure. These seek to displace emergency humanitarian interventions in drought-...
This working paper seeks to contribute to a larger analysis on whether community-based management is still a feasible option for service delivery in...
This paper proposes a framework of elements that need to be in place for continued handpump functioning, and then turns this into a diagnostic device...
Since my first post about some first-hand experience of running a WASH business within the Ethiopian business framework I've been wondering how much of the challenges is due to being a foreign business. Maybe the thought occurred to a few readers.
Ethiopia is currently ranked 161st out of 190 countries for "Ease of Doing Business". My first post is about why that might be the case, and how the recent new government has the potential to have an impact as it seeks to harness the potential of the private sector.
