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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...
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...
WASHCost Ghana supports the Sector Wide Approach (SWAp) development process and the Sector Strategic Development Plan (SSDP) to have the Life Cycle Costs Approach (LCCA) embedded in the WASH service delivery. Read more...
WASHTech project is using cost components of LCCA in the financial indicators for validating WASH technologies. Read more...
UNICEF is developing and testing the “Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Bottleneck Analysis Tool (WASH-BAT)”. This tool integrates, among others “the approaches and concepts of other recent tools and initiatives in the WASH sector. Read more...
The GLAAS questionnaire on aid disbursements for WASH includes a question on maintaining and improving service levels. Read more...
In partnership with IRC and the Rainwater Harvesting Implementation Network, WASHCost studied the historical trends and drivers of adopting Rain Water Harvesting (RWH). Detailed comparisons are made between life-cycle costs of RWH systems and the life-cycle costs of other water supply systems. Read more...
Planners and decision makers expect to know what a technology will cost and what it will deliver, including the traditional technologies used for rainwater harvesting. But collecting and analysing these costs, even for age old technologies, is not straightforward since documentation of actual costs... Read more...