Sub County Water and Sanitation Boards could help fix community management in Uganda – but only with support. Read more...
How stakeholder cooperation enhances water facilities, as this video shows. Read more...
Water for People has helped Sagar and Patharpratima boost coverage and improve sustainability. Read more...
The rural water sub sector in Uganda has relatively well developed WASH policies that clearly define responsibilities of different stakeholders right from National to Decentralized levels of service delivery. 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...
Fee-based approaches alone won't cut it when it comes to getting decent-quality services to the poor. Read more...
Looking at what can be done to bring professionalism into community-based water supply. Read more...
How can NGOs and donors partner more effectively with government to meet the challenges of delivering WASH services that last? The WASH Sustainability Forum tackled this issue. Report now on-line. Read more...
In Uganda, the Mobile for Water project gives communities an SMS hotline to a handpump mechanic. Read more...
Prepared by Vida Duti and Emmanuel Gaze; presented at the Triple-S Annual Review and Planning Meeting (ARAP), Fort Portal Uganda, 6th-11th May 2013 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...
Existing coordination platforms in Uganda are largely for sector coordination, performance review and accountability and do not focus explicitly on... 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...
How can NGOs and governments work together more effectively to ensure water services that last? A Uganda dialogue identifies concrete steps to improve coordination and joint learning. 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...
Reducing downtime of hand pumps using sms technology, Ghana. Read more...
The USAID water strategy has had the gestation period of an elephant, but now that it's finally out, has it been worth the wait? Read more...