Rural Water Utilitisation Project; State of water services in the Western Region

The “Rural Water Utilitisation Project” (R-WUP) funded by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation in Ghana, aims to expand the activities of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) as the leading public sector agency in rural Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) within the sub-sector. The objective is to facilitate the provision of safe water to Rural Communities and Small Towns through a decentralised Service Delivery Approach. To achieve this objective, CWSA in 2017, initiated a policy reform, to expand its mandate to include the management of piped water systems in rural areas, and thus, in effect become a rural utility

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