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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...
Seminario organizado por el FHIS y el IRC sobre homologación de modelos de intervención y el uso de datos de costos. Read more...
The Dutch WASH Alliance (DWA) works towards a society in which everybody has access to sustainable water and sanitation. DWA acknowledges that sustainable WASH has at least five dimensions: financial, institutional, environmental, technical and a social (FIETS) dimension, which are adopted in DWA... 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...
Avaliação dos serviços de saneamento nas áreas rurais e peri-urbanas de Moçambique. A WASHCost desenvolveu uma serie de indicadores para cobrir os níveis do serviço associado às instalações de saneamento e usou esses indicadores para fazer uma avaliação mais abrangente das instalaçoes do saneamento... Read more...
Análise dos custos de construção de infra-estruturas de saneamento rural e peri-urbano. Read more...
O sector de Água, Saneamento e Higiene – ASH possui informação limitada relativa aos custos e seu historial. Para responder a este défice, vimos que publicações com base nos contratos desencadeiam uma discussão vigorosa nos custos unitários. Esta informação está neste momento a ser usada para... Read more...
WASHCost realizou ao longo do mês de Março de 2012 um levantamento com vista a apurar os custos de esvaziamento das latrinas avançadas (boas latrinas num lugar definitivo) nas zonas periurbanas da Cidade de Maputo. 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...
Iniciou em Janeiro de 2012, uma parceria entre a Administração de Infra-Estruturas de Água e Saneamento (AIAS) e o Fundo das Nações Unidas para a Infância (UNICEF) e as Direcções Províncias das Obras Públicas e Habitação de Tete, Manica e Nampula para a provisão de serviços de abastecimento de água... Read more...
À margem da Reunião Anual do abastecimento de água rural e saneamento, a reunião que teve lugar em Dondo enfatizou a necessidade contínua de se consolidar a sustentabilidade na área de infraestrutura de água e saneamento e para o contínuo enfoque no desenvolvimento da capacidade institucional, por... 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...
Cette étude est une illustration de l’approche des coûts à long terme. Les résultats ne sont pas statistiquement représentatifs des trois types de systèmes à l’échelle du pays et ne doivent pas être interprétés comme tels. Leur présentation a permis de montrer comment opérationnaliser l’approche en... 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...
Alana Potter, lead author of the WASHCost working paper on "Assessing hygiene cost-effectiveness", explains the importance of changing hygiene behaviours and its relevance to safe water on World Water Day. Read more...
On 13 and 14 March 2012, WASHCost Ghana hosted a training session on the life-cycle cost approach in order to help participants—especially district water and sanitation teams, district planners, and district directors, with their planning and budgeting of WASH services. Read more...
WASHCost Burkina Faso La mobilisation du financement est un enjeu sensible pour le développement et la gestion des services AEPHA (Eau, assainissement et hygiène) pour tous. Deux sessions complémentaires ont abordé ce sujet dans le 6ème Forum Mondiale de l’eau - Marseille 2012. Read more...