Citation:
S. Taylor, S. A. Asimah, R. Buamah, K. Nyarko, S. P. Sekuma, Y. N. Coulibaly, A. Wozuame, P. Jeffrey and A. H. Parker, Towards sustainable water sanitation and hygiene technology use in Water Sanitation and Hygiene in sub-Saharan Africa: the Learning Alliance approach, Water Policy 2016, Volume 18, Issue 4, pp1–17.
Abstract:
To extend water, sanitation and hygiene services to all, technological innovations are
required which take into account a diverse range of stakeholder perspectives. We
report the experiences of an intervention which sought to build capacity in the
assessment and introduction of technologies in Uganda, Ghana and Burkina Faso by
developing the Technology Applicability Framework (TAF), a tool which culminates in a
multi-stakeholder scoring workshop. The project also used Learning Alliances to build
capacity around technology introduction. This paper explores how stakeholder
attitudes changed through the project and evaluates the Learning Alliance approach.
It finds that whilst the intervention did manage to connect stakeholders in a novel way,
uptake of the TAF may be hampered by a lack of government involvement in the
earliest stages of the project.