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The WASH toolkit provides a compendium of tools to assist in WASH life-cycle costing, undertaking inventory, improve WASH planning and governance Read more...
Study seeks solutions for sustainable small-town water service delivery. Read more...
The Hon. Joseph Kofi Adda unfolds his ambitious goals at Stockholm World Water Week. Read more...
Max Foundation and IRC invite you to discuss sustainability and domestic resource mobilisation when aid ends. Read more...
Water and sanitation services are finally set to get the attention they deserve. Read more...
IRC Ghana Country Director Vida Duti will be one of the speakers at the philanthropy platform in Accra. Read more...
To provide ongoing services, local governments need to systematically address the full range of costs, beyond construction of water facilities. This experiment supported districts to apply the life-cycle costs approach and asset management, so that their water and sanitation plans and budgets would... Read more...
Triple-S (Sustainable Services at Scale) has led a process of learning and innovation to improve rural water service delivery in Ghana and Uganda. Each experiment has documented, results and recommendations shared with stakeholders in the two countries. In addition, the progress on the innovation... Read more...
Ghana is experiencing economic growth. Donors say that more domestic generated resources need to be raised and channeled to the water and sanitation sector. Read more...
In collaboration with the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA), the WASHCost Ghana team focused its data collection in three districts (one each in the Northern, Ashanti and Volta regions) and conducted supplementary case studies in the Central region and Greater Accra. Read more...
We are delighted to announce that the WASHCost e-book, Priceless! Uncovering the real costs of water and sanitation, is available for free download on IRCWASH from September 2014. Read more...
Looking at the Alorsekope community's water supply situation in Ghana. Read more...
Stress of water-fetching reduced with coupon scheme. Read more...
Many rural water systems in Ghana fail prematurely. This is estimated to be around 30 percent at any given point in time. Sometimes, these failures are attributed to a lack of clearly defined roles and responsibilities for sector actors and institutions. It is often the case that, once water... Read more...
It requires innovative mechanisms to fill the financing gap between policy and practice. Read more...
Peter Burr examines asset monitoring for sustainable services. Read more...
Prepared by Chimbar Tom Laari; presented at the Triple-S Annual Review and Planning Meeting (ARAP), Fort Portal Uganda, 6th-11th May 2013. Read more...
Sustaining water facilities in Ghana’s rural areas is challenging. Villages are in charge of repairs, but often don’t have the money for it. Read more...
An animation illustrating the relationship between life-cycle costs and the service delivered. Read more...
IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre's WASHCost project has released an animation that has been created to help us understand how the life-cycle costs and the service delivered are connected. The life-cycle cost approach can be used to increase financial sustainability and to stop the... Read more...