A presentation on the legacies and of Triple-S Project in Ghana and how it envisages the up-scaling of the Project

1. Mrs Vida
TRIPLE-S GHANA Duti
PRESENTATION ON LEGACY Country Director
AND SCALING-UP
MAY 16, 2012

2. PRESENTATION
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3. Phasing and relative level of effort over project
Relative effort lifetime
Phase 3: Systemic
Phase 1: Creating
changes and up-scale
for piloting
condition
Phase 2: Pilot and
documentation
Project timeline- November 2009- December 2014
The road travelled
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4. Overall strategy
• Supporting the sector (at the sector level) –
through a range of programme areas
• Testing implementation at the district level
towards achieving sustainable services in
practice
• Under-pined by a partnership approach with
key government institutions (in particular
CWSA being the lead institution for rural water
services)
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5. Triple-S Ghana Intervention Framework
Gaps and bottlenecks Intervention modules
National level
- normative
•Operational documents and guidelines
and policy
• Different, fragmented and uncoordinated •Sector harmonization and coordination
approaches
•Capacity support to CWSA
• Unreliable data on functionality and
service authority
services •Functionality tracking, sustainability and
Intermediate
• Unclear role of local government in the water service monitoring system
level –
delivery of water services •Planning, budgeting and tariff setting
• Insufficient expenditure on direct support •Capacity support for local water
and capital maintenance governance
• Weak DA support to service providers •Supply Chain delivery
level
Service provider
• Non compliance to national standards and
norms •Citizen government engagement on
• Low functionality and unreliable service water services
• Weak service provider institutions •Capacity support for service providers
• Ineffective supply chain and technical •Innovative options for capital
services maintenance
• Lack of accountability and transparency in •Supply chain and technical services
service delivery
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6. The Legacy of Triple-S and Beyond
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7. The Legacy of Triple-S and Beyond
Post project legacies for buy in
• Official adoption of the service delivery approach and
endorsement of use of operational documents by government
and partners
• Community Water sector of Ghana coordinated within a
framework of nationally approved operational documents,
guidelines and standards for delivering water services
• A community of practice of SDA
• Institutionalized structure and learning culture within CWSA
for continued development and promotion of innovation for
sustainable water services
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8. The Legacy of Triple-S and Beyond
Nature and depth of demand
• number of types of products and innovations developed and used by the sector.
– Revised DIMES which reflects service monitoring and uniform
reporting framework across the country.
– sector operational documents that clearly define strategies and
guidelines for water service delivery
– Tested innovative options for post construction support and financing
– Result based financing schemes for water which rewards sustainability
– Service delivery chain model for post construction support
– A handbook on innovative options, best practices, steps, strategies
and procures for adoption of SDA.
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9. The Legacy of Triple-S and Beyond
Proof of Concept
• Pilot districts will be centers of excellence for water service
delivery and reference point for learning
• an action research report documenting the processes and
correlation between innovative elements of SDA and service
town time.
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10. WHERE ARE WE ?
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11. Framework conditions for implementing SDA
Framework conditions for implementing SDA
• Partnerships and government leadership
• The discourse on the sustainability challenge is beginning to reflect in
practice. CWSA has officially endorsed adoption of SDA at its annual
conference held in April 2012. The Ghana Statement for SWA HLM in April
2012 recognizes adoption of SDA as an approach to addressing the
sustainability challenge in order to ensure long term service.
• Sector operational documents are being reviewed to reflect the service
delivery approach: National Community Water and Sanitation Strategy;
Project Implementation Manual; guidelines and standards
• Service monitoring has been adopted and the framework for monitoring
functionality and sustainably included in official sector operational
documents
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12. Framework conditions for implementing SDA
• The Advisory and technical committees constituted by the Ministry to
provide policy direction and development of technical content for Triple-S
has brought key stakeholders within and outside CWSA together to co-
create technical (operational) and policy (strategic) innovations towards
ensuring sustainability and functionality.
• The annual reflection meetings within CWSA and with stakeholders
instituted to review progress of implementation of SDA in Ghana is
providing a platform for self reflection and co-creation of ideas/ and
strategies for implementation.
• A community of practice of SDA is beginning to emerge. A number of
NGOs are now piloting/ incorporating aspects
•
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13. Framework conditions for implementing SDA
• Created demand for SDA knowledge and products: Demand
for training to enable uptake of SDA/LCCA. by Coalition of
NGOs in Water and Sanitation, CWSA technical staff in non
pilot districts and; a number of organizations have also
requested information on SDA/LCCA to either inform project
design
• The participatory, consultative approach that have been
piloted have shown quick results in how the district
assemblies are mobilizing funds and other resources and
amending their planning priorities to ensure the repair and
maintenance of water facilities and increased functionality.
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14. PRODUCTS
• A publication on Lessons from Rural Water Supply:
Assessing progress towards sustainable service delivery
published in May 2011.
• Participatory ‘looking back’ studies to document the
performance of existing service delivery models in two
regions – draft report
• Tested framework for functionality and water service
monitoring
• Baseline reports on functionality and service and
sustainability indicators for 3 pilot districts
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15. REPLICATION AND SCALING-UP
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16. SYSTEMIC CHANGES AND SCALING –
UP
Embedding
• Policy and agency commitments
• Passage of Legislative Instrument for Community
Water Subsector regulation- legislation officially
endorses operational documents
• Systemic changes in practice- CWSA adoption of the
sector operational documents for the rural water
sector is a major step translating policy to practice
and to harmonize approaches towards delivery of
sustainable services
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17. SCALING-UP: GOING BEYOUND BOARDERS
Opportunities and entry points for replication and scaling up
• World Bank Sustainable Water and Sanitation Project to adopt service
monitoring framework and methodology for sustainability check and
baseline of Water facilities in 6 districts
• EIB/AFD project in planning- includes post construction support,
sustainability checks and monitoring service delivery, results based
financing- to be implemented in 4 regions
• EIB/AFP project in planning premised on national operational documents
and beginning first steps for a rural water sector SWAP is a good
opportunity for DP alignment with the sector operational documents
• Emerging community of practice of SDA provides opportunity to
maximize synergies for testing innovations and scaling out to other
districts
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18. LOOKING TO THE FUTURE
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19. STRATEGIC FOCUS IN COMING THE
COMING YEARS
National Level
Support efforts to revise the DIMES to reflect the new functionality and
sustainability indicators and nationwide scale out reporting across the
country.
Contribute to development of results based grants for water services
Support CWSA to finalise and facilitate use of publish sector operational
Capacity development in SDA/LCCA to continue creating innovations
and improvements on various aspects of sustainability
Backstopping , documenting process for uptake and scaling up of
innovations
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20. STRATEGIC FOCUS IN COMING THE
COMING YEARS
At District Level
•Develop business cases and advocate implementation of
recommendations of the baseline study on functionality and service,
document process and impact on service down time.
•Functionality tracking, sustainability and water service monitoring
system
•Pilot innovation for supply chain and technical services
•Local government capacity in LCCA planning, budgeting and asset
management
•Pilot innovations for post construction financing
•Support establishment of learning and coordination platforms at
regional and district level in collaboration with RCN, SNV, WaterAid,
WASH Alliance Ghana and partners
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21. BEYOND TRIPLE-S
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22. BEYOND TRIPLE-S
•Triple-S vision: Sustainable water services for all through SDA
•Vision of the rural water and sanitation sub-sector: all people
living in Ghana have access to adequate, safe, affordable, reliable and
sustainable water services, and practice safe sanitation and hygiene
•IRC Ghana: Supporting Ghana to achieve its national vision of
providing sustainable and appropriate water and sanitation services
for all
• Support by other stakeholders to replicate and up-scale
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23. BEYOND TRIPLE-S
A community of
Practice of SDA
coordinated within a
framework of
nationally approved
operational
documents,
guidelines and
standards for
delivering water
services
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