The Tripartite Partnership (TPP) Project is a three-year collaborative approach involving Ghanaian and Dutch partners that aims at developing innovative management models for delivering water, sanitation and hygiene services to the urban poor in Ghana.

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This communication strategy explains what TPP’s key communications objectives are and how we hope to achieve them. The strategy has been adapted to support TPP’s two-fold key project objectives:
1. To identify and test a range of different management models for providing water services to the urban poor
2. To support the creation of the enabling environment (policy, regulation etc.) necessary for these models to be widely scaled up.

11012010 TPP Communication Strategy.pdf  (339 kB)

This brief report therefore sets out an indication of what is known about best practise in managing development of water supply and sanitation in small towns.

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The urban poor are the least likely to have access to safe water and have the greatest difficulty in obtaining it.
The “best” way to serve people in urban areas is via piped water with household connections. However, this is expensive in terms of capital cost, is technically difficult, and is often beyond the financial and technical capability of utilities.

Extension of service levels is either not in the mandate of utilities or, when it is, this is most likely to take place to serve the relatively well off, who are likely to be most vocal and organised, and live in areas that are technically more easy to serve than those areas inhabited by the poor.

The utilities themselves are often plagued by a lack of resources in technical, human and financial resource. Water is often stolen through illegal connections to the mains supply, which increases the rate of Non Revenue Water.

Read more or download pro poor mechanisms peri urban HOA_MA.docx  (226 kB)

This report contains the processes and initial outcomes, policy implications, and lessons of a management contract within a public private partnership arrangement for water delivery in Tumu, the district capital of the Sissala East District Assembly of the Upper West Region, one of the three poorest regions of Ghana.

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This case studies will bring out the interesting innovations currently available in the country by which the poor are served with water, sanitation and hygiene education – analysing them from the perspective of the impact of the innovations and factors responsible for the impacts.

This report contains the processes and initial outcomes, policy implications, and lessons of a management contract within a public private partnership arrangement for water delivery in Tumu, the district capital of the Sissala East District Assembly of the Upper West Region, one of the three poorest regions of Ghana.

Tumu has the only one functioning small town pipe system in the district. There are five boreholes from which water is pumped into three overhead tanks for distribution to inhabitants of the town.

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The case of Asesewa and Asiakwa - Small Town Water Supply in the Eastern Region

Asesewa and Asiakwa communities are 2 old traditional communities located in Upper Manya District and East Akim District respectively in the Eastern Region of Ghana. Both communities are homogeneous, and highly dominated by their respective indigeneous tribes - Krobo and Akan.
Whilst Asesewa is now a district capital (Upper Manya District), and is growing in size and population with the influx of more civil servants, businesses, and new housing units, the progress of Asiakwa has been affected by the diversion of the Accra-Kumasi trunk road which hitherto passed through the town and made it a little more vibrant. It is feared that present and future developments in Asiakwa will concentrate at the junction of the Accra-Kumasi road, about 2 kilometres away, and this will further reduce the status of the community.
In terms of economy and commerce, Asesewa is a well-known market centre with vigorous weekly commercial activities. Asiakwa, on the other hand, is a small farming community of mostly cocoa (cash crop), plantain, cassava and maize (food crop) farmers.

Read more or download Final Draft - tpp study - Asiakwa-Asesewa.pdf  (847 kB)

This factsheet describes the “Water Sanitation Development Board with permanent employed staff” management model.

This is the most widely applied water management model for small towns with a population ranging between 2,000 and 50,000 in Ghana. In addition to a general description of the model, the factsheet presents the cases of Abokobi and Pantang, where the model is applied.

Finally, the factsheet describes the main challenges related to the application of the management model.

fact_sheet_abokabi pantang case_rev_250110.pdf  (356 kB)

This factsheet describes Bulk Supply in Savelugu, as an example of a community-utility partnership model. It describes the model, in theory and in practice, including the challenges to the model, and areas and conditions for its applicability.

It presents the model as an option for improving or extending provision from official providers to the underserved.

fact_sheet_savelugu case_rev_250110.pdf  (281 kB)

This fact sheet provides an introduction to public-private partnerships in small town water management in Ghana.

It describes the management model in theory, assesses the examples of Atebubu and Bekwai and offers an overview of the challenges related to this model and its applicability.

fact sheet_TPP_ppp_rev_250110.pdf  (272 kB)