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Kayser, G.L. et al., 2013. Domestic water service delivery indicators and frameworks for monitoring, evaluation, policy and planning : a review. , pp.p. 4812 - 4835; 4 fig.; 3 tab.

Published on: 17/10/2013

Monitoring of water services informs policy and planning for national governments and the international community. Currently, the international...

Fonseca, C. et al., 2013. Enfoque de costos del ciclo de vida : costeo de servicios sostenibles, (WASHCost nota informativa) The Hague, The Netherlands: IRC. Available at: https://www.ircwash.org/sites/default/files/084-201310briefingnote1adef_web_2.pdf.

Published on: 08/11/2013

Que es el enfoque de costos del ciclo de vida? Nota informativa explicando cuales son los principales componentes de los costos de agua y saneamiento...

Fonseca, C., 2013. Why monitoring finance matters : a powerpoint presented at the Monitoring Sustainable WASH Service Delivery symposium on 9 April 2013, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: IRC.

Published on: 13/05/2013

A powerpoint presentation on the question why monitoring finance matters, presented at the IRC- Monitoring Sustainable WASH Service Delivery...

Fonseca, C. & Verhoeven, J., 2013. Monitoring the finance needed for sustainable service delivery : keynote paper for Topic 1 of “Monitoring Sustainable Service Delivery Symposium, The Hague, The Netherlands: IRC. Available at: https://www.ircwash.org/sites/default/files/topic_1_fonseca_and_verhoeven_monitoring_the_finance.pdf.

Published on: 08/04/2013

The WASH sector has come a long way since 2010; as WASH professionals, we are starting to have a common and shared financial language. So what is...

Smits, S. et al., 2013. Background paper for “Monitoring Sustainable WASH Service Delivery Symposium” 9 to 11 April 2013 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, The Hague, The Netherlands: IRC. Available at: https://www.ircwash.org/sites/default/files/smits-2013-background.pdf.

Published on: 08/04/2013

A common background for symposium participants is provided. WASH service delivery monitoring is a broad topic, often understood in different ways...

Tremolet, S., Cardone, R. & Fonseca, C., 2012. Investing in urban water and sanitation systems, Available at: https://www.ircwash.org/sites/default/files/Tremolet-2012-Investing.pdf.

Published on: 13/07/2012

Potter, A. et al., 2012. L’évaluation des niveaux de service d’assainissement, (WASHCost document de travail No 3) The Hague, The Netherlands: IRC. Available at: https://www.ircwash.org/sites/default/files/working_paper_3_-_2nd_ed._en_francais_levaluation_des_niveaux_de_service_dassainissement.pdf.

Published on: 07/06/2012

Conventional sanitation ladders rank sanitation in increasing complexity of technological options. However, sanitation improvement is not as...

Potter, A. et al., 2012. Avaliando os níveis dos serviços de saneamento, (WASHCost working paper No 3) The Hague, The Netherlands: IRC. Available at: https://www.ircwash.org/sites/default/files/Potter-2012-Avaliando.pdf.

Published on: 07/06/2012

Conventional sanitation ladders rank sanitation in increasing complexity of technological options. However, sanitation improvement is not as...

Norman, G., Fonseca, C. & Jacimovic, R., 2012. Financing water and sanitation for the poor : six key solutions, (In: Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor : Discussion Paper DP#003) The Hague, The Netherlands: IRC. Available at: https://www.ircwash.org/sites/default/files/Norman-2012-financing.pdf.

Published on: 23/02/2012

Water and sanitation services for the very poor remain grossly deficient over large areas of the globe, and financing water and sanitation...

Burr, P., Fonseca, C. & IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, The Hague, NL, 2011. Applying the life-cycle costs approach to sanitation : costs and service levels in Andhra Pradesh (India), Burkina Faso, Ghana and Mozambique, (WASHCost briefing note 3) The Hague, The Netherlands: IRC. Available at: https://www.ircwash.org/sites/default/files/Burr-2011-Applying.pdf.

Published on: 20/01/2012

Briefing note with key findings on the comparison of the financial costs of a range of traditional and improved latrines and the quality of service...

Batchelor, C., Fonseca, C. & Smits, S., 2011. Life-cycle costs of rainwater harvesting systems, (Occasional paper series / IRC 46) The Hague, The Netherlands: IRC. Available at: https://www.ircwash.org/sites/default/files/Batchelor-2011-Lifecycle.pdf.

Published on: 14/12/2011

Rainwater harvesting (RWH) is a centuries old technology that has the potential to play an increasingly important role in improving and sustaining...

Fonseca, C. et al., 2010. A multi dimensional framework for costing sustainable water and sanitation services in low-income settings : lessons from collecting actual life cycle costs for rural and peri-urban areas of Ghana, Burkina Faso, Mozambique and Andhra Pradesh, (WASHCost research report V1.0) The Hague, The Netherlands: IRC. Available at: https://www.ircwash.org/sites/default/files/Fonseca-2010-Multi.pdf.

Published on: 21/12/2011

The water and sanitation sector faces a sustainability challenge because of the emphasis on installing pipes and pumps instead of ongoing service...

Pezon, C., Fonseca, C. & Butterworth, J., 2010. IRC Symposium 2010 Pumps, Pipes and Promises : background paper: pumps, pipes and promises : costs, finances and accountability for sustainable WASH services, The Hague, The Netherlands: IRC. Available at: https://www.ircwash.org/sites/default/files/Pezon-2010-Background.pdf.

Published on: 11/11/2010

Moriarty, P.B. et al., 2010. Decentralisation and the use of cost information in delivering WASH services,

Published on: 27/12/2010

The WASHCost project (www.washcost.info) is carrying out action research into the life-cycle costs of provision of rural WASH services in Burkina...

Nyarko, K. et al., 2010. Cost and financing of rural and small towns water services delivery in Ghana,

Published on: 27/12/2010

This note presents preliminary results from the WASHCost pilot studies in two districts of Ghana on the cost of service delivery using the Life...

Moriarty, P.B. et al., 2010. What’s in a service? : using water service ladders in life-cycle cost analysis, The Hague, The Netherlands: IRC.

Published on: 27/12/2010

This note is based on a working paper of the WASHCost project and sets out current thinking on defining and stratifying water service delivery. To...

Fonseca, C. et al., 2010. Life-cycle costs approach : glossary and cost components, (WASHCost briefing note no. 1) The Hague, The Netherlands: IRC. Available at: https://www.ircwash.org/sites/default/files/Fonseca-2010-Life.pdf.

Published on: 12/08/2010

Briefing note describing the cost components in the life-cycle costs approach.

Fonseca, C. & Minnigh, P., 2009. Crossfire: 'Technology development versus capacity building' . , pp.p. 101-107. Available at: https://www.ircwash.org/sites/default/files/Fonseca-2009-Technology.pdf.

Published on: 22/06/2009

Fonseca, C. & Diaz, C., 2008. Working together to improve aid effectiveness in the water sector : mapping EU development assistance to the water sector in Africa : exercise of the Africa Working Group of the European Union Water Initiative 2007-2008, The Hague, The Netherlands: IRC. Available at: https://www.ircwash.org/sites/default/files/Fonseca-2008-Working.pdf.

Published on: 22/01/2010

Until now, it has not been possible to assess levels of European Union Member States’ funding to water supply and sanitation separately, using...

Sijbesma, C. et al., 2008. Financing sanitation in poor urban areas, Delft, The Netherlands: IRC. Available at: https://www.ircwash.org/sites/default/files/Sijbesma-2008-Financing.doc.

Published on: 19/08/2010

This essay addresses innovative ways of financing safe sanitation in poor urban households and neighbourhoods. Although sanitation comprises...

Fonseca, C. et al., 2007. Microfinance for water, sanitation and hygiene : an introduction, Delft, The Netherlands: Netherlands Water Partnership (NWP). Available at: https://www.ircwash.org/sites/default/files/Fonseca-2007-Microfinance.pdf.

Published on: 02/11/2007

This booklet, launched during a finance workshop in India, gives a short introduction on microfinance issues in the water and sanitation sector....

Tremolet, S. et al., 2007. Innovations in financing urban water and sanitation : financing shelter, water and sanitation, S.l.: Center for sustainable urban development. Available at: https://www.ircwash.org/sites/default/files/Tremolet-2007-Innovations.pdf.

Published on: 22/10/2010

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) identified water and sanitation services as key factors in lifting people out of poverty. However, the...

Cardone, R. & Fonseca, C., 2006. Innovative financing : experiences of water supply and sanitation service delivery in small urban centres, (UN-Habitat report on the water sector in small urban centres paper1) Nairobi, Kenya: UN-Habitat, United Nations Centre for Human Settlements. Available at: https://www.ircwash.org/sites/default/files/Habitat-2006-Innovative.pdf.

Published on: 07/11/2008

Cardone, R. & Fonseca, C., 2006. Water sector in small urban centres : analysis of donor flows to water supply and sanitation services, (UN-Habitat report on the water sector in small urban centres paper 2) Nairobi, Kenya: UN-Habitat, United Nations Centre for Human Settlements. Available at: https://www.ircwash.org/sites/default/files/202.8-06WA-18957.pdf.

Published on: 07/11/2008

Fonseca, C. & Cardone, R., 2006. Cost estimates, budgets, aid and the water sector : what's going on? : an analysis illustrated with data from 12 Sub-Saharan African countries, Delft, The Netherlands: IRC. Available at: https://www.ircwash.org/sites/default/files/Fonseca-2006-Cost.pdf.

Published on: 19/04/2007

Increasing access to water and sanitation services is a financially daunting task. Recently, a large number of studies have been conducted to...

Fonseca, C.

Kayser, G.L. et al., 2013. Domestic water service delivery indicators and frameworks for monitoring, evaluation, policy and planning : a review. , pp.p. 4812 - 4835; 4 fig.; 3 tab.

Fonseca, C. et al., 2013. Enfoque de costos del ciclo de vida : costeo de servicios sostenibles, (WASHCost nota informativa) The Hague, The Netherlands: IRC. Available at: https://www.ircwash.org/sites/default/files/084-201310briefingnote1adef_web_2.pdf.

Fonseca, C., 2013. Why monitoring finance matters : a powerpoint presented at the Monitoring Sustainable WASH Service Delivery symposium on 9 April 2013, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: IRC.

Smits, S. et al., 2013. Background paper for “Monitoring Sustainable WASH Service Delivery Symposium” 9 to 11 April 2013 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, The Hague, The Netherlands: IRC. Available at: https://www.ircwash.org/sites/default/files/smits-2013-background.pdf.

Tremolet, S., Cardone, R. & Fonseca, C., 2012. Investing in urban water and sanitation systems, Available at: https://www.ircwash.org/sites/default/files/Tremolet-2012-Investing.pdf.

Potter, A. et al., 2012. Avaliando os níveis dos serviços de saneamento, (WASHCost working paper No 3) The Hague, The Netherlands: IRC. Available at: https://www.ircwash.org/sites/default/files/Potter-2012-Avaliando.pdf.

Batchelor, C., Fonseca, C. & Smits, S., 2011. Life-cycle costs of rainwater harvesting systems, (Occasional paper series / IRC 46) The Hague, The Netherlands: IRC. Available at: https://www.ircwash.org/sites/default/files/Batchelor-2011-Lifecycle.pdf.

Moriarty, P.B. et al., 2010. Decentralisation and the use of cost information in delivering WASH services,

Nyarko, K. et al., 2010. Cost and financing of rural and small towns water services delivery in Ghana,

Moriarty, P.B. et al., 2010. What’s in a service? : using water service ladders in life-cycle cost analysis, The Hague, The Netherlands: IRC.

Fonseca, C. et al., 2010. Life-cycle costs approach : glossary and cost components, (WASHCost briefing note no. 1) The Hague, The Netherlands: IRC. Available at: https://www.ircwash.org/sites/default/files/Fonseca-2010-Life.pdf.

Fonseca, C. & Minnigh, P., 2009. Crossfire: 'Technology development versus capacity building' . , pp.p. 101-107. Available at: https://www.ircwash.org/sites/default/files/Fonseca-2009-Technology.pdf.

Sijbesma, C. et al., 2008. Financing sanitation in poor urban areas, Delft, The Netherlands: IRC. Available at: https://www.ircwash.org/sites/default/files/Sijbesma-2008-Financing.doc.

Fonseca, C. et al., 2007. Microfinance for water, sanitation and hygiene : an introduction, Delft, The Netherlands: Netherlands Water Partnership (NWP). Available at: https://www.ircwash.org/sites/default/files/Fonseca-2007-Microfinance.pdf.

Tremolet, S. et al., 2007. Innovations in financing urban water and sanitation : financing shelter, water and sanitation, S.l.: Center for sustainable urban development. Available at: https://www.ircwash.org/sites/default/files/Tremolet-2007-Innovations.pdf.

Fonseca, C. & Cardone, R., 2006. Cost estimates, budgets, aid and the water sector : what's going on? : an analysis illustrated with data from 12 Sub-Saharan African countries, Delft, The Netherlands: IRC. Available at: https://www.ircwash.org/sites/default/files/Fonseca-2006-Cost.pdf.

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