Sector Learning session focuses on sustainability
By RCN Ghana · 03 August 2010
There is indication that the Sustainable Services at Scale (or Triple-S) project will continue to have the full support of stakeholders in the WASH sector following overwhelming acknowledgement by participants at the sector learning session of 21 st Mole Conference (Mole XXI) that the sustainability of facilities and services is paramount.
Sector Learning focuses on sustainability at Mole
There is indication that the Sustainable Services at Scale (or Triple-S) project will continue to have the full support of stakeholders in the WASH sector following overwhelming acknowledgement by participants at the sector learning session of 21 st Mole Conference (Mole XXI) that the sustainability of facilities and services is paramount.
At least, participants were impressed at the objectives behind the Triple-S project when the project was discussed extensively at a sector learning on water, sanitation and climate change session of Mole XXI.
Introducing the project, Vida Duti of Triple-S said the project was intended to reverse a trend of system failures. Estimates, according to her, have it that 30-33 percent of all rural water systems (including boreholes, pumps and wells) in Ghana are not functioning. “We are not even talking of those that are delivering below minimum capacity.”
This situation is attributable to the drive to increase the number of new water delivery systems without paying attention to maintenance. Usually, there is failure to raise finances for replacement costs. These developments are frustrating host communities for these projects.
Participants and discussants unanimously endorsed approaches like the Triple-S. They drew attention to the need to document such approaches used in water and sanitation interventions to foster sector-wide learning and replication.
“There is the need to document approaches used in water and sanitation interventions by various actors at all levels to ensure that best practices can be shared and utilised in project interventions,” t…
Sector Learning focuses on sustainability at Mole
There is indication that the Sustainable Services at Scale (or Triple-S) project will continue to have the full support of stakeholders in the WASH sector following overwhelming acknowledgement by participants at the sector learning session of 21 st Mole Conference (Mole XXI) that the sustainability of facilities and services is paramount.
At least, participants were impressed at the objectives behind the Triple-S project when the project was discussed extensively at a sector learning on water, sanitation and climate change session of Mole XXI.
Introducing the project, Vida Duti of Triple-S said the project was intended to reverse a trend of system failures. Estimates, according to her, have it that 30-33 percent of all rural water systems (including boreholes, pumps and wells) in Ghana are not functioning. “We are not even talking of those that are delivering below minimum capacity.”
This situation is attributable to the drive to increase the number of new water delivery systems without paying attention to maintenance. Usually, there is failure to raise finances for replacement costs. These developments are frustrating host communities for these projects.
Participants and discussants unanimously endorsed approaches like the Triple-S. They drew attention to the need to document such approaches used in water and sanitation interventions to foster sector-wide learning and replication.
“There is the need to document approaches used in water and sanitation interventions by various actors at all levels to ensure that best practices can be shared and utilised in project interventions,” t…
