Former IRC Associate
The presentation titled: “ Talk sustainability, get action” , focused on how the Triple-S Project mainstreamed awareness raising through all the project phases. Read more...
The Resource Centre Network(RCN) has a published a set of “ WASH Reflections ”, a monthly communiqué on highlights of the National Level Learning Alliance platform meetings held in Ghana. Read more...
Unsafe water source: At least 60 residents of Gulu district in northern Uganda, fell ill after drinking water from wells and streams that were reportedly poisoned by unknown people. Read more...
Ghana is focusing on using a decentralized approach to monitoring rural water services declares the Chief Executive Officer of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA), Mr Clement Bugase at the 6 th World Water Forum. Read more...
Nearly 2.2 million people die every year because of WASH-related factors, causing CSOs at the World Water Forum to that conclude that this is recipe for a humanitarian crisis. Read more...
The 6th World Water Forum opened in Marseille with the welcome news that the world had attained the MDG target of halving the number of people without access to safe drinking water way ahead of the 2015 deadline. However, another 800 million people in the world are yet to share in that success. Read more...
The second International Work Stream (IWS) learning retreat took place during January 19-20, 2012. Participants discussed emerging results from monitoring methods used to inform the IWS' learning – including SenseMaker®, stakeholder interviews, qualitative document assessment, logs of requests and... Read more...
Water users in Lira district, Northern Uganda have adopted a new way of ensuring regular payment of user fees and continued functionality of their sources. From the funds collected in monthly fees, they have started a loan scheme for users. Many community members who have benefited from the... Read more...
In the search for more effective coordination mechanisms, WASH actors in Kabarole district (Uganda) ventured into sub-county level planning and review meetings. Although it is still in its infant stages, this approach is already showing signs that it could improve some aspects of sector... Read more...
Who says traditional African community mobilisation approaches have died out? The application of the Omuhiigo approach to the Community Based Management System (CBMS) of water sources in Kabarole district, is a good case of the revival of seemingly-forgotten traditional community mobilisation... Read more...
The Akatsi District in the Volta Region allocated GHS 50,000.00 (approximately USD$ 29,456.82) towards analysing water quality and providing WATSAN training and monitoring in 2012. Allocating money towards these endeavours is part of measures undertaken by the Assembly to ensure the continuous... Read more...
"Service delivery indicators and monitoring to improve sustainability of rural water supplies in Ghana" was presented during the 6th RWSN Forum and draws on the monitoring work in Ghana by the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) and Triple-S. The document examines how monitoring systems... Read more...
The Akatsi District Assembly has collected baseline data on functionality and sustainability of water services using mobile phone technology. Environmental Health Officials and members of the District Water and Sanitation Team were trained through the Triple-S Project as enumerators to collect data... Read more...
Triple-S presents to the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs the importance of moving towards a service delivery approach in order to help people without access to rural water supply. Read more...
This presentation explains how Triple-S is contributing to catalyse the WASH sector focus from infrastructure to service delivery approaches for rural water. Read more...
Triple-S and WASHCost are working together to tackle long-term challenges of sustainable WASH service delivery. Watch the presentation made for the African Development Bank. Read more...
This presentation explains what is not working for water and sanitation service delivery. Read more...
The ‘WASH Conference 2011: Towards Sustainability in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene’ was held in Brisbane from 16th to 20th May 2011. Triple-S provided key lessons on how to improve rural water service delivery. Read more...
Ghana’s SenseMaker ® results are now available! Triple-S Ghana led a questionnaire team to collect a total of 1,256 stories from water users and water professionals. Read the preliminary report to learn about trends in Ghana’s rural water sector. Read more...
During the 6th Rural Water Supply Network Forum, which took place from November 29 to December 1, 2011, more than one hundred participants paid a visit to the Story Booth to be recorded on video and participate in the Triple-S story initiative. Read more...