Projects
The MUS Group as such doesn't carry out MUS Projects. Yet, its members are involved in such projects, and regularly report on these. This folder contains links to these.
The MUS Group as such doesn't carry out MUS Projects. Yet, its members are involved in such projects, and regularly report on these. This folder contains links to these.
This site contains outputs from the Multiple Use Services (CPWF-MUS), project which was part of the Challenge Program on Water and Food. It ran from 2004-2009. The project was a partnership of professionals from the productive and domestic water sectors, and from the research and implementation communities. It focused on developing tested tools and guidelines for multiple-use water services delivery as an effective way to use water for poverty alleviation and gender equity. Activities were carried out in rural and peri-urban areas of five major river basins and eight countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.The project worked through so-called learning alliances to develop locally-specific innovations and build capacity for scaling up.
RiPPLE (Research-inspired Policy and Practice Learning in Ethiopia and the Nile Region) is a five-year research programme consortium, which aims to advance evidence-based learning on water supply and sanitation (WSS), focusing specifically on issues of planning, financing, delivery and sustainability, and the links between sector improvements and pro-poor economic growth. MUS is one of the key focus themes in that.
Water, Households and Rural Livelihoods (WHiRL) is a research project that focused on promoting access of the poor to sustainable water supplies for domestic and productive uses in areas of water scarcity in South Africa and India. More information can be found at www.nri.org/whirl