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On Friday 29 June 2012, WASH sector professionals and journalists gathered at Sidwaya (Hebdo newspaper from Ouagadougou) for "Palabres d’eau"—the fourth round of discussions on water and the role journalists play in promoting domestic sanitation in rural areas. Abu-bakr Adiz, Director General of... Read more...
Authors Catarina Fonseca, Rachel Cardone and Sophie Trémolet contributed to a new book titled “The Urban Transformation - Health, Shelter and Climate Change”, published by Routledge on 9 July 2012. The book describes the ongoing urban transformation towards a world in which, by 2050, more than two-... Read more...
A series of videos is being produced on the life-cycle costs approach and its use in Ghana, India, Burkina Faso and Mozambique. Read more...
SaniFaso—a Burkina Faso based programme aimed at building 16,000 latrines in 12 communes throughout the country—is looking at hygiene interventions and use of sanitation facilities in the focus communes. On 12 July, during the final WASHCost team project meeting, members of the WASHCost Burkina... Read more...
WASHCost is developing a free online course to assist water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) professionals around to world with applying life-cycle costing in their work and organisation. The online course can be used by sector professionals with little or no experience of life-cycle costing... Read more...
Global Water Challenge and WASH Advocates invite you to their next webinar—WASH sustainability: looking through the GLAAS. Read more...
Over 40 participants convened in Switzerland to participate in the 28 th AguaSan meeting from 18 to 25 June. People discussed how to financing for sustainability of WASH services. The life-cycle costs approach was at the forefront of this discussion. Read more...
M. Thierry Barbotte, Directeur gestionnaire de Vergnet Hydro SAS et Nico Terra, directeur de l'IRC Centre International de l'Eau et de l'Assainissement ont signé fin mai un protocole d'entente (PE). Y sont définis les collaborations des institutions dans le domaine du développement des... Read more...
An overview of the dilemmas that face community water and sanitation development team. Read more...
Dr K Tirupataiah, Director General, Water and Land Management and Training Institute, Government of Andhra Pradesh mentioned that the Life-Cycle Cost Approach (LCCA) is an innovative tool that helps the decision makers on the analysis of investment patterns and results achieved. In an interview... Read more...
The “costing sustainable services” training that took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, during 8 to 10 May 2012 examined ways to improve financing of water service delivery in Ethiopia and specifically to increase sustainability of service delivery. The main gaps identified by participants included:... Read more...
On 3 May 2012, IRC, CONASA, and FHIS organised a seminar on standardising intervention models for the Honduran WASH sector. Read more...
On 15 May 2012, Catarina Fonseca presented the life-cycle costs approach as the seventh installment of the World Bank and Rural Water Supply Network’s webinar series on rural water supply. World Bank Rural Water Supply webinar series Read more...
Tamale, the Northern Regional capital of Ghana has hosted the final in the series of Life Cycle Cost Approach (LCCA) training for selected districts in three regions of Ghana. The training is to build the capacity of the relevant technical staff involved in budgeting and planning for water,... Read more...
Mr. Vikas Raj—secretary of the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Department of Andhra Pradesh, identified unsustainable sources and absence of dedicated funds as two major challenges for the government of Andhra Pradesh in providing sustainable water and sanitation services. Mr. Raj shares his... Read more...
WASHCost Mozambique developed indicators for service levels associated with sanitation facilities. The four service levels (improved, basic, limited, and no service) were used to assess sanitation facilities that are currently available to Mozambicans. Read more...
An overview of the life-cycle costs approach to WASH service sustainability in Ghana. Read more...
On 21 March 2012, WASH Advocates celebrated World Water Day 2012 by organising the “Get Schooled on WASH” learning sessions. Read more...
What does it cost to provide water services that last? What do we mean by a water service? How can we measure whether water is being provided effectively, and at the desired level? These are among the questions tackled during a panel discussion held in WASH Advocate’s 301 session for World Water... Read more...
Mr Sojan K Thomas, from Gram Vikas, shares the secrets behind this ground-breaking success in India. While narrating key principles that Gram Vikas followed in promoting total sanitation, he emphasises the cost sharing practices between the family and organisation. Read more...