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The first lady of Burkina Faso has pledged her support for the "Fasotoilettes 2017" campaign. Read more...
The WASHCost Burkina Faso team conducted its research in rural and peri-urban communities across three geographically distinct areas: the dry region of Nord, the capital city Ouagadougou, and the forested Southwest region, Hauts-Bassins. 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...
Monitoring and awareness raising have helped the commune of Gorgadji collect fees for preventive maintenance of waterpoints and take steps towards sustainable water supply services. Read more...
What will rural water supply look like in the future? And will it include the handpump or are there viable, and preferable, options? Read more...
High breakdown rates of systems in rural Burkina Faso are the visible results of still poorly functioning water supply services. But in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's capital, WASHCost found an example of how the water sector could be organized, by looking at the model of ONEA water company which is... Read more...
IRC has published a research document on the cost, performance and regulation of water services in small towns, in Burkina Faso. This research applies the Life-Cycle Cost Approach and the Service Delivery Approach to assess and compare the cost and the performance of water services provided by... Read more...
Implementing the life-cycle costs approach in Burkina Faso. Read more...
In Ouagadougou, the WASHCost team found an example of how the water sector could be organized, by looking at existing initiatives using the life-cycle cost approach. 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...
A new IRC- Triple-S/GLOWS/WA-WASH research paper analyses the absolute and relative value of each cost component of a water service (capital investment, operating costs, rehabilitation cost, support costs) and looks into each component's cost drivers. Read more...
In this folder you can find the presentations related to the joint session on cost effectiveness of sanitation and hygiene interventions Read more...
We're sharing our WASHCost data on the full costs of providing water and sanitation services over their entire service life-cycle from construction to operation, rehabilitation, and eventual replacement. Detailed studies established these costs and examined how these costs relate to the level of... Read more...
From 14 to 16 January 2013 a three day workshop was held in Ouagadougou with different WASH sector stakeholders to discuss the new methods and approaches of monitoring water supply and sanitation services and to identify ways to scale up the service delivery approach at the national level for... Read more...
Based on national standards, the 7 boreholes and 3 standpipes in the village of Komsilga, Burkina Faso, are sufficient to supply water to 3,600 people. Since only 1,500 people live in the village, you might think that they had water in abundance. Read more...
Amelie Dube, programme officer at IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, discusses the efforts of embedding the life-cycle cost approach at local level in relation to sanitation in Burkina Faso. Read more...
WASHTech project is using cost components of LCCA in the financial indicators for validating WASH technologies. Read more...
The costs presented in this document are the minimum costs of access to sanitation. They are inevitably less than the life-cycle costs of a sustainable sanitation service. Moreover, the unit cost calculated on the basis of household expenditures can by no means be considered as an estimate of the... Read more...
While the problem of poor sustainability - and the threat it poses to achieving the MDGs - may be well recognised, concrete steps for addressing it are considerably less clear. Triple-S, an IRC initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently completed a 13-country study to... Read more...