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Moving sustainability concepts to on the ground improvements:
the Sustainable Water Service Delivery project in Ghana.
Presentation of paper written by Peter Ryan and Raphael Sufyan Sulemani. Monitoring Sustainable WASH Service Delivery
Symposium, Addis Ababa, 10th April 2013
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Raphael Sufyan Sulemani
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Contents
• Context• Methodology• Model development• Testing and refinement• Reflections
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Context
• Service not hardware provision : the great leap forward for RWS
• Emergent concepts > on the ground implementation
• Decision support system aka “model” of sustainability elements
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Methodology
Complicated model? • No, a decision support tool• To assess/predict service sustainability
at community level• Basis: extensive data collection
– Quantitative: 4670 hh, 441 Watsan committee and 1509 waterpoint – FLOW-Excel-SPSS
– Qualitative: interviews/groups, specialised research , analysis of technical aspects of waterpoints
• Model construction, testing, refinement• Handover, embedding, utilisation
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Model development• Welding disparate inputs into a
working tool– criteria, indicators, weightings
• Form into questionnaire• Automatic generation of
likelihood of sustainability for each criteria, and in general– Output is indication of strengths
and weaknesses that can be addressed as needed
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Testing and refinement • Tool tested in the field
in two regions• Found to “predict”
outcomes correctly• Counter intuitive
situations reflected well• Need for simplification,
avoidance of duplication
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Reflections Strengths
• Tool provides the right answers
• It can be used in predictive or evaluation modes
• It pinpoints areas for corrective action
• It is usable at:– community level with District
support (certainly)– District level with community
inputs (potentially)
Challenges• How to utilise across vast
numbers of communities• How to link into national
monitoring systems• In some locations the field is
becoming cluttered – turf issues
• Need for coalescing tools where this brings user benefits
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Thank you!
The work described here was led by Destina Samani of WSA Ghana, with Mathew Ocholi, Raphael Sufyan
Sulemani, Aime Metchebon and other agencies: it was supported by the Conrad N Hilton Foundation.