Former IRC Associate
A shallow well in Elwany Village, Lira district in Uganda badly needs rehabilitation. But rather than collect money to repair the well, residents would rather return to a dirty pond which they used before the well was established. This is all because they were once betrayed by a treasurer whom they... Read more...
From August 10 to 12, Triple-S Ghana participated in the 22 nd edition of the Mole Conference Series. The Conference, which was organised by the Ghana Coalition of NGO's in Water and Sanitation (CONIWAS) is the biggest multi-stakeholder annual platform in the WASH sector in Ghana. Over 150... Read more...
Triple-S Ghana Workstream organised a reflection meeting to review the Narrative 2 of the Triple-S project. Read more...
The Mole Conference series is the biggest Multi-Stakeholder annual platform in the WASH sector in Ghana. The three day conference brought together policy makers and implementers, local authorities, representatives from civil society, academia, non-governmental organizations, private sector and the... Read more...
Lira District WASH actors have been without a coordination structure since for over a year. This void was created in 2009 when UNICEF closed its office in Lira District. Since 2005, UNICEF had been coordinating the WASH cluster in Lira district, which comprised mainly humanitarian agencies... Read more...
The book Supporting Rural Water Supply unpacks problems and identifies success factors in delivering rural water services. Now available from Practical Action. Read more...
Nearly one in eight people do not have access to safe water. What can be done to tackle this global crisis? Read more...
Monitoring efforts need to refocus from tracking coverage (the number of systems built and users who have access) to tracking sustainable service delivery. This was the main message of the keynote paper delivered by Triple-S director Ton Schouten at the First Consultation on Post-2015 Monitoring,... Read more...
WaterAid UK extended an invitation to Triple-S Ghana to attend a workshop on sustainability organised for its West Africa Program staff and partners in Monrovia Liberia, during 1-3 June 2011. The workshop: “Access to Sustainable Rural Water Services” was held in recognition of the sustainability... Read more...
Coordination of actors at the national and districts level remains a key challenge in Uganda’s WASH sector. The sector is awash with government and non-government actors at national, district, sub-county and even the parish level. However, the variations in mandates, agenda and resources often lead... Read more...
Extension workers in Lira District have unanimously agreed to initiate and strengthen sub-county coordination and learning platforms in their respective areas of operation. This was at a recent extension workers’ learning meeting organised by Triple-S Uganda, TSU 2 and the Lira District Water... Read more...
The WASH Sector in Uganda is awash with case studies of innovations that have transformed communities. Every so often, sector actors gather in different forums and share experiences on what they are each doing and the emancipation arising from their interventions. At sub-county, district and even... Read more...
The Lira District Water and Sanitation Coordination Committee (DWSCC) got a shot in the arm when Triple-S offered to be the Secretariat for the committee. The offer followed a meeting between the Triple-S Lira District Learning Facilitator, Robert Otim and the District Water Officer Engineer Omoko... Read more...
CWSA is leading the adoption of a Service Delivery Approach in Ghana as a way of improving rural water service delivery. Read more...
Instead of simply counting beneficiaries, Water for People uses sustainability as their measure of success. Read more...
UNICEF's sustainability checklist looks at institutional, social, technical and financial indicators to evaluate the sustainability of rural water supply projects. Read more...
The long-term sustainability of investments in rural water has long been a problem. There can be no single blueprint for institutional frameworks, policies, service delivery models and technologies. What works in one place, doesn’t necessarily work in another. However, we do know from long... Read more...
Plan International's global review of their expenditures on water supply and sanitation takes into account the cost of implementation, software components and post-construction support. Read more...
The concept of ‘water-person-years’ (WPY) is a new way of measuring the impact of investments. Assessing investments in WPY over a defined period of time, allows for a more efficient allocation of resources, and calls for a rethinking of the current development approach. Measuring in WPY is... Read more...
