Context and Rationale - Community Water and Sanitation Agency
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Context and Rationale - Community Water and Sanitation Agency
The context and rationale for the reform programme is encapsulated in the numerous research findings which point to the inherent weaknesses in community management of water systems and its threat to sustainability. Baumann, 2006; Van den Broek and Brown, (2015) posited that in spite of the achievements in water services delivery, there is growing consensus that the approach needs to be overhauled. Moriarty et al., (2013) explicitly agreed with a generally held belief that community management is ‘at the beginning of the end’…not principally because community management has failed, but because it is reaching the limits of what can be realistically achieved in an approach based on informality and voluntarism’.
The above aside, SDG 6 requires that all households in Ghana have access to safe and on-the-premise water by 2030, making the requirements of the SDGs more stringent than that the MDGs
In order to achieve this objective, the CWSA in 2017 after extensive research and stakeholder engagements took a bold step to embark on reforms to transform its operations for the sustainability of safe water delivery in the rural water sub-sector.
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Context and Rationale
Compelling Reasons
Expected Outcome
Vision and Mission
Objectives of the Reform
Achievements so far
Impact so far
+233-30-2983104
www.cwsa.gov.gh
info@cwsa.gov.gh
Ministry of Works, Housing and Water Resources
Ministry of Finance
Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development
Resource Center Network
State Interest and Governance Authority
Office of the Head of Local Government Services
UNICEF Ghana
National Development Planning Commision (NDPC)
DANIDA
National Petroleum Authority (NPA)
Catholic Relief Services
Public Services Commission
Global Affairs Canada
Plan International Ghana
Ghana Water Company Ltd
Ghana Standards Authority
Environmental Protection Authority
Food and Drugs Authority
Ghana Education Services – SHEP
World Bank
Ghana Statistical Services
KFW
Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC)
Ghana Gas
Saha Global
Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC)
ActionAid Ghana
African Development Bank Group
Conrad N Hilton Foundation
The context and rationale for the reform programme is encapsulated in the numerous research findings which point to the inherent weaknesses in community management of water systems and its threat to sustainability. Baumann, 2006; Van den Broek and Brown, (2015) posited that in spite of the achievements in water services delivery, there is growing consensus that the approach needs to be overhauled. Moriarty et al., (2013) explicitly agreed with a generally held belief that community management is ‘at the beginning of the end’…not principally because community management has failed, but because it is reaching the limits of what can be realistically achieved in an approach based on informality and voluntarism’.
The above aside, SDG 6 requires that all households in Ghana have access to safe and on-the-premise water by 2030, making the requirements of the SDGs more stringent than that the MDGs
In order to achieve this objective, the CWSA in 2017 after extensive research and stakeholder engagements took a bold step to embark on reforms to transform its operations for the sustainability of safe water delivery in the rural water sub-sector.
Quick Links
Context and Rationale
Compelling Reasons
Expected Outcome
Vision and Mission
Objectives of the Reform
Achievements so far
Impact so far
+233-30-2983104
www.cwsa.gov.gh
info@cwsa.gov.gh
Ministry of Works, Housing and Water Resources
Ministry of Finance
Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development
Resource Center Network
State Interest and Governance Authority
Office of the Head of Local Government Services
UNICEF Ghana
National Development Planning Commision (NDPC)
DANIDA
National Petroleum Authority (NPA)
Catholic Relief Services
Public Services Commission
Global Affairs Canada
Plan International Ghana
Ghana Water Company Ltd
Ghana Standards Authority
Environmental Protection Authority
Food and Drugs Authority
Ghana Education Services – SHEP
World Bank
Ghana Statistical Services
KFW
Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC)
Ghana Gas
Saha Global
Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC)
ActionAid Ghana
African Development Bank Group
Conrad N Hilton Foundation