Sub County Water and Sanitation Boards could help fix community management in Uganda – but only with support. Read more...
It would be easy, and wrong, to say that global conferences rarely deliver results, for sometimes they offer brand new ways of seeing things. Read more...
A new joint initiative in Ghana aims to ensure that monitoring information is effectively used to keep water and sanitation services working. 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...
IRC and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) have been supporting El Salvador, Honduras and Paraguay to develop and implement rural water monitoring systems. Read more...
During an interview about mapping rural water supply via a web-based system, we hit our first stumbling block. Read more...
The professionalisation of community based-management means moving away from an approach based purely on volunteerism, towards a more professional, competent and effective management of rural water services working to agreed standards, and with greater transparency and accountability. Read more...
A paper prepared for the IRC water sanitation symposium held 9-11 April 2013 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Read more...
Ryan Schweitzer and James Mihelcic from the University of South Florida have developed a Sustainability Assessment Tool for community-managed rural water systems [1]. The tool is novel because it focuses specifically on community management during the post construction phase. It can be used to... Read more...
Anyone who works in the water sector cannot have missed the consultations and debates on the post-2015 goals for water and sanitation. Read more...
Water and sanitation facilities: a service provider is needed for day-to-day administration. Read more...
Over a ten-year period, the Government of Uganda implemented a transparent and consolidative approach to monitoring. Read the report from the Rural Water Supply Network to learn lessons and challenges from the Ugandan context. Download here . Read more...
Could lack of definition be undermining the impact of effective but costly support? Read more...
A crucial building block in delivering sustainable services is a monitoring system able to track a level of rural water service over time, especially the performance of key technical, financial, and management functions so that problems can be anticipated and addressed. To help the sector IRC and... Read more...
Supporting Rural Water Supply takes a critical look and asks why are 30 to 40% of rural water systems failing in developing countries? And how can we support the adoption of a service delivery approach – one that moves beyond implementing infrastructure projects to delivering a reliable and... Read more...