Local governments have a crucial, and increasing role to play in the provision of rural and small town water services. Often, however, they struggle to take up these tasks. In this video, representatives of national government, district local government and WASH service providers from Ghana, Burkina Faso and Uganda share their viewpoints on the challenges, the way forward and the role of national governments and development partners in the support of local governments.
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This document provides a framework to support reflection and documentation of the learning alliance process in the three focus countries of the... Read more...
While the problem of poor sustainability - and the threat it poses to achieving the MDGs - may be well recognised, concrete steps for addressing it are considerably less clear. Triple-S, an IRC initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently completed a 13-country study to... Read more...
The purpose of this paper is to summarize the status of the Dracunculiasis Eradication Programme as of March 1993, when less than three years are... Read more...