IRC-Ghana reading list of key documents on water supply

A very helpful list of key documents on water supply in Ghana.  It is a mix of papers focusing on topics such as costing, mapping, decentralisation and water management. The list has been compiled by IRC's Patrick Moriarty.

1. Lessons for Rural Water Supply - Assessing progress towards sustainable service delivery – Ghana:  The Triple-S background paper; an absolutely required reading from start to finish! 

2. WASHCost Working Paper 1 - Theory of change: This working paper sets out WASHCost’s theory of change including a section on decentralisation in Ghana is required reading pp 13-17.

3. WASHCost working paper 2 – Ladders for assessing and costing water service delivery: One of the key concepts of WASHCost and Triple-S.

4. Pumps Pipes and Promises (symposium proceedings): This IRC conference sponsored by WASHCost and held 2010 in the Netherlands. Two papers are part of the essential reading:
 p. 36  The use of cost information in planning and decision making in rural water and sanitation service delivery in Ghana Imoro Braimah, Kwabena Nyarko and Patrick Moriarty. http://www.irc.nl/page/55842
p. 172 Costs of delivering water service in rural areas and small towns in Ghana Nyarko K B, Dwumfour‐Asare B, Appiah‐Effah E, Moriarty, P. http://www.irc.nl/page/55883
 All papers  accessible from http://www.irc.nl/page/55569

 5. Lessons for rural water supply - a multi-country synthesis: This is the synthesis of the 13 country case studies carried out at the start of Triple-S.  To read, at least chapters 1 & 2 and the Ghana page in Chapter 3. http://washghana.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/ensuring-rural-water-services-that-last-lessons-from-a-13-country-study/

6. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Rural Water Services - Providing Sustainable Water Services at Scale: There are a lot of interesting papers in this.  Recommended reading is Gibson’s paper on page 22 about rural water services in South Africa.  You could also flick through two WASHCost papers on pages 42 and 45. Essential Ghana reading:
 p. 57 Cost and financing of rural and small towns water services delivery in Ghana - Nyarko, K. (KNUST, Ghana), Moriarty, P., Fonseca, C., Oduro-Kwarteng, S., Dwumfour-Asare, B., Appiah-Effah, E.
 p. 12 The Emergence of Service Delivery Models in Ghana F. Mawuena Dotse, MAPLE Consult, Ghana, Benedict Tuffuor, TREND Group Ghana and Nana Professor Boachie Danquah, University of Ghana Business School 12. http://www.scalingup.watsan.net/page/301

7.-11.The TPP project – led by TREND and in which IRC worked – a lot of interesting work on identifying and mapping service delivery models for small towns in Ghana.  IRC is working on a synthesis document – available soon.  In the meantime recommend to at least look at four of the case studies developed that relate to small-town water supply models:

1. Public private partnerships model in small towns. (23 Dec 10)
2. Community-Utility Bulk Water supply in Savelugu in the Northern Region of Ghana. (23 Dec 10)
3. Small town water supply in the Asesewa and Asiskwa (23 Dec 10)
4. Community Public-private partnership model for the management of multi-Town scheme in Ghana (22 Dec 10)  The 3 Districts Water Supply Scheme (3DWSS)
5. There are also some nice maps that show the different models being used in different parts of Ghana.

Al the different fact sheets and case studies are available on the RCN website: http://www.washghana.net/page/777

12. SWITCH Document (2011): Towards integrated urban water management in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area - Current status and strategic directions for the future: This is about urban water and sanitation supply in Accra. Nevertheless, it is interesting to read as it touches on many  main themes such as gaps in policy and practice. It also introduces the RIDA analytical method which is a key IRC approach.