MUS Symposium 2008
The MUS Group, together with the RiPPLE programme, organised an international symposium on multiple-use services from 4-6 November, 2008, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Full proceedings can be found at http://www.musgroup.net/page/746 .
MUS - yes we can!
The third day of the symposium focused on replication, scaling-up and taking the MUS approach forward.
From WASH to WISH?
Whereas the first day of the symposium focused on more conceptual discussion of what is MUS, and how it can be understood, the second day went into depth on practical service delivery implications.
Is MUS a MUST? Focus on water services provision for rural livelihoods!
The first day of the MUS Symposium turned around the objective of getting to a common understanding of what multiple-use services (MUS) means.
Minister: Provision of access to water for productive uses crucial for poverty alleviation
“Access to water for basic domestic uses alone is not sufficient. People also require access to water for small-scale productive uses. Food security still is one of the major points on the agenda of the Government of Ethiopia. Food production needs to be stimulated, particularly at the local level. This can also create a bigger impulse to the economies. The provision of access to water for productive uses is crucial in that.” This is how Ethiopia’s Minister for Water Resources opened the MUS symposium, in a speech read by his advisor Mr. Abera Mekonnen.
MUS symposium blog: a sneak preview
The symposium: Multiple-Use Services (MUS); from Practice to Policy is taking place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In this first blog posting we'll take a sneak preview of what participants can expect.
Multiple-use services: from practice to policy
14 Jul 08
An international symposium on multiple-use services will be held from 4-6 November, 2008, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The objective of the symposium is to share recent research and practice experiences on multiple-use water services and to debate lessons learned and implications for policy. The symposium is co-organised by the MUS (Multiple-Use water Services) Group, a community of practice of organisations working on this issue, and the RiPPLE (Research-inspired Policy and Practice Learning in Ethiopia and the Nile Region) research consortium that is currently providing evidence based learning to support water and sanitation implementation programmes in Ethiopia and the Nile Region.
