Findings for the Ghana baseline: assessing and monitoring water services in Ghana. Read more...
Peter Burr examines asset monitoring for sustainable services. Read more...
Two years after a district assessment of handpump functionality in Ghana, why have things got worse, rather than better? Read more...
A special issue of ' Water Alternatives' journal looks at trends in water services in rural areas. Read more...
Strengthening local government capacity for service delivery remains a key challenge for the water, sanitation and hygiene sector. Read more...
Looking at what can be done to bring professionalism into community-based water supply. Read more...
In Uganda, the Mobile for Water project gives communities an SMS hotline to a handpump mechanic. 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...
The Service Delivery Index in 5 slides, originally presented at the 2013 Triple-S Annual Review and Planning Meeting. Read more...
Elder Joe is the proud secretary of a water committee managing a handpump on the outskirts of Odumase town in Ghana. But the committee would rather manage a different type of system. Read more...
The costs of getting spare parts for handpumps can sometimes be higher than the costs of the parts. But a new SMS-based system might help. Read more...
The Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) in Ghana is developing a framework for assessing and monitoring water services. Read more...
In March 2012, UNICEF and WHO announced that the Millennium Development Goal for water had been met. But that's just the start. Read more...
USAID and Rotary International's development and adoption of the powerful Sustainability Index Tool is great news. Read more...
This is great news and fantastic to see USAID adopting and promoting this approach which aims to really track and better understand the underlying causes of poor sustainability in the WASH sector. Read more...
I cannot resist visiting the odd water works or taking photographs of the local water and sanitation facilities during my holidays. Read more...
Triple-S Ghana shares results of the baseline assessment of the status of service levels, service providers and support functions, in Akatsi, Sunyani West and East Gonja districts in the Volta, Brong Ahafo and Northern regions respectively. Read more...
Inexpensive mobile networks, smart phones, and apps. They are already transforming lives and livelihoods across the developing world. Can they transform water services too? Read more...
A ‘User Satisfaction Survey’ of water users has been carried out in the Akatsi South District of the Volta Region. The survey is to determine how satisfied water users are with services delivered by service providers in the district. 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...