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John Sauer, Water for People, and Nick Dickinson, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, identify what is needed to properly and sustainably provide WASH services. Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) organisations are often asked by donors to quantify their projects in unit cost or cost... Read more...
Assessing Sanitation Service levels: A New Approach is the article by Alana Potter, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, that was published in: Sanitation Matters, Issue 2, 2011. Read more...
In an upcoming IRC Occasional Paper (OP Series 46), IRC, WASHCost and the Rain Foundation will present findings from a Rainwater Harvesting Study. Research indicates that collecting water from rain can be advantageous on many levels. If one takes into account the life-cycle costs of the system and... Read more...
The World Bank and USAID sponsored a discussion of the Sustainable Services at Scale (Triple-S) research report at World Bank headquarters. Read more...
Why do families build toilets? If the family tradition for many generations has been to defecate in the open – using local woods or accepted sites, then what is the incentive to make a break and opt for a toilet instead? Read more...
At the Third Ghana Water Forum held in Accra, 5 - 7 September 2011, WASHCost presented research findings, new briefing notes, and the country coordinator discusses the way forward. Mr. Eugene Appiah-Effah, a WASHCost Ghana Research Officer presented on the topic ‘Cost of rural and small town water... Read more...
During this free full-day seminar, as part of the RWSN Forum on Friday 2 December 2011, we will focus on the use of the life-cycle costs approach for water and sanitation building on experiences in rural and peri-urban areas in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Andhra Pradesh (India) and Mozambique. Read more...
James Batchelor of the WASHCost team uses spatial analysis completed over the past year on 20 villages in Andhra Paradesh to demonstrate the effectiveness of mapping as a way of analysing and understanding factors that influence life-cycle costs and WASH service levels. Read more...
The WASHCost Mozambique team recently reflected on its past research process and how they will move forward into the coming years. Their key focus for moving into latter half of the WASHCost programme is to provide evidence on the practicality of the WASHCost approach on the ground, as well as... Read more...
Read the new series of briefing notes on “Life-cycle costs approach for WASH services that last”. It highlights findings on the life-cycle costs and levels of service delivery in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector in Ghana. Read more...
The Life-Cycle Cost Approach Indicator list is now available on the WASHCost website. The list allows the costing of sustainable Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) services by assessing life-cycle costs and comparing them to levels of service provided. It contains an overview of 105 key... Read more...
The Country Coordinator for WASHCost Project Ghana, Mr. Alexander Obuobisa-Darko, has reiterated the need for the proper understanding of the cost of providing WASH services for planning and budgeting of operations, maintenance and upgrading to ensure sustainability of WASH services. Read more...
The Vice Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Works and Housing and a former Greater Accra Regional Director of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA), Honourable Edem Asimah, has stated that communities that benefit from water and sanitation projects must contribute to their... Read more...
From 16 to 18 November 2010, IRC’s second symposium gathered some 120 international participants in The Hague, The Netherlands to discuss the latest in discursive trends, research agenda and on-the-ground experiences on WASH service costs, financing and accountability. Read more...
An international group of forty-five WASH professionals participated in the training session “Costing sustainable services: The life-cycle cost approach”, which took place at the WASH 2011 Conference in Brisbane, Australia, May 2011. This training session is part of the “Water and Sanitation... Read more...
The immediate past Director for Technical Services at the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA), Mr. R. K. D. Van Ess has stated that the concept of the Life Cycle Cost Approach (LCCA) on costing WASH services being researched by the WASHCost Project in Ghana, is a laudable one for... Read more...
The Country Director for WASHCost Project Ghana, Dr Kwabena Nyarko, has called on the WASH sector in Ghana to use the Life-Cycle Cost Approach to ensure sustainability of service delivery in the sector. At the CWSA head office, Dr Nyarko said WASHCost has quantified the actual cost of delivering... Read more...
Ton Schouten, Director of IRC’s Triple-S initiative presented the keynote paper at the First Consultation on Developing post-2015 Indicators for Monitoring Drinking-Water and Sanitation in Berlin, held during 3-5 May and organised by WHO and UNICEF. Read more...
The third Africa Conference on Hygiene and Sanitation (AfricaSan3) will be held on 19-22 July 2011 in Kigali, Rwanda. WASHCost will be hosting informative seminars on life-cycle costing at the Serena Hotel. Read more...
WASHCost regularly updates a Flickr page with interesting images from our focus countries. Read more...