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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...
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...
The Bangladesh government has reduced its allocation for water and sanitation by around 10 billion taka (US$ 121 million) in the proposed 2012-13 budget. 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...
“Closing the gap: WASH sector devolution and decentralisation in Malawi” takes a close look at how donor financing and lack of awareness about access to funds for both infrastructure and capacity building can be better aligned; particularly in Malawi’s decentralised water sector. Read more...
On 3 May 2012, IRC, CONASA, and FHIS organised a seminar on standardising intervention models for the Honduran WASH sector. Read more...