RiPPLE

RiPPLE (Research-inspired Policy and Practice Learning in Ethiopia and the Nile Region) aims to meet the challenge of converting policy and financial support into implementation with a real impact on the poor by providing evidence-based learning to support implementation programmes.



Governance and Planning Concept paper

03 Oct 08

A snapshot of where the thinking of the GaP team stood at the end of RiPPLE’s inception period.

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Growth theme concept paper

03 Oct 08

How can investment in water supply and sanitation (WSS) contribute to the government’s wider objectives of economic growth and poverty reduction?

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Synthesis: Sanitation & Hygiene

03 Oct 08

Latrine construction and use, hand-washing and water storage/handling by households were surveyed, by quantitative and qualitative methods.

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Government and Planning Literature Review

03 Oct 08

Framework of key concepts and issues in which to anchor the action research of the GaP theme, with a focus on the core areas of: decentralisation, and decentralised service delivery; governance and specifically water governance; and participation, especially in planning.

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