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Participants at the MOLE XXIII Conference have called for the establishment of a national water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) fund to finance capital maintenance of facilities to ensure sustainability. This is because communities are not able to finance capital maintenance activities on their own... Read more...
IRC Ghana has organised a Life-Cycle Cost Approach (LCCA) training for participants at the MOLE XXIII. The training was in collaboration with the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, WASHCost Project Ghana and the Coalition of NGOs in Water and Sanitation (CONIWAS). Read more...
Rural water services in Ghana, particularly those provided by the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA), are typically seen as responding primarily to the need for good quality drinking water. It is with this in mind that the basic service level of 20 litres of water per person per day of... Read more...
This Briefing Note presents findings on actual access to water services by users in small towns and rural communities, and analyses this access with respect to poverty. Read more...
Rural water coverage has been increasing steadily but there are concerns with high levels of non-functional water point systems fitted with handpumps. Read more...
WASHCost Briefing Note No. 5 presents findings on access to sanitation services in rural and small towns in Ghana using the Life-Cycle Costs Approach (LCCA) developed by WASHCost for the water, sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector. Read more...
Le projet WASHCost au Ghana a organisé en mars et avril 2012 une formation sur l’approche des coûts à long terme (Life-Cycle Cost Approach – LCCA) dans trois circonscriptions de trois régions du Ghana. Read more...
Governments can finance support programmes for sanitation services by the 3 Ts: Taxes, Tariffs and Transfers. Read more...
The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) ; IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre and CONIWAS are organizing a training session on“costing sustainable WASH services”on Saturday August 25, 2012. Read more...
Sub-counties in Uganda's Kabarole District are excited about the potential of their new water and sanitation boards. But without financing, how can that potential be realised? Read more...
The WASHCost Ghana Project conducted a training workshop on the Life-Cycle Cost Approach (LCCA) in March and April 2012 for three districts in three regions. The training workshop was aimed at equipping participants, especially District Water and Sanitation Teams, the District Planning and... Read more...
Journalist Pacôme Tomètissi wants to revisit the fishing communities of Lake Nokoué in Benin to examine the sustainability of a 5 million euro EU-funded water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) project. Read more...
WASHCost met en place un cours gratuit et en ligne pour appuyer les professionnels du secteur de l’eau, l’assainissement et l’hygiène du monde entier dans la mise en pratique de l’établissement des coûts à long terme dans leur travail et leur organisation. Read more...
Traditional chiefs appealed to the Accra Municipal Assembly (AMA) that central funding to the WASH sector is not reaching their districts. This results in a disastrous situation that affects all irrespective of who you are. This was said during a budget tracking exercise organized by the NGO... Read more...
On 17 July 2012, Catarina Fonseca, WASHCost project director, participated in a webinar hosted by Global Water Challenge and WASH Advocates. Presenters and participants discussed the practical implications of the recent GLAAS report. The UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and... Read more...
We work with several partner organisations in our focus countries of Burkina Faso, Ghana, India, and Mozambique. Read more...
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...
André Uandela - Country Director WASHCost Mozambique stated that in order for a household to move up a step on the sanitation service ladder, a household will need to pay 2.5 times more than what was originally spent for the current service level. 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...