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Public finance is essential to achieve universal access to sustainable water and sanitation services Read more...
Uncovering and understanding the real costs of water, sanitation and hygiene services by using the life-cycle costs approach. Read more...
A summary of the side-event at the Third International Conference on Financing for Development July 15th 2015, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The session highlighted how domestic resource mobilization is critical to the achievement of goal 6, and to fill the substantial gap between current levels of... Read more...
The role of finance in achieving successful sanitation outcomes for urban areas. A thematic discussion "Urban Sanitation Finance – from Macro to Micro Level"... Read more...
Financing for the water and environment sector in Uganda has shown a declining trend since 2008, leading to a reduction in funding for key aspects of water supply services. Read more...
Deze week vindt de derde VN-Conferentie Finance for Development plaats in Addis Abeba, Ethiopië. Minister Lilianne Ploumen zal spreken, ook IRC is er bij. De hamvraag is: Hoe gaan we de nieuwe ontwikkelingsdoelen betalen? Read more...
Safe drinking water and sanitation is a human right, but it's going to be costly. How serious are world leaders to reach everyone by 2030? And where will the money come from? Read more...
IRC Ghana Country Director Vida Duti will be one of the speakers at the philanthropy platform in Accra. Read more...
MAPAS (Monitoreo de Avances de País en Agua y Saneamiento) es un esfuerzo de los países centroamericanos y de República Dominicana para medir sus avances hacia el logro de sus metas del sector agua potable y saneamiento. Read more...
Share your thoughts with six leading experts on urban sanitation finance for households, cities and the national level. Read more...
The Community Water Plus project investigates the support that is being provided to community-managed rural water supplies. This is being done for twenty case studies of programmes from across India. Read more...
For community-managed rural water supply to be sustainable, a "plus" is needed: special efforts to empower communities during project implementation, and continued support from government during service delivery. The Community Water Plus project seeks to get a better understanding of the costs of... Read more...
Vous voulez en savoir plus sur le suivi de l'assainissement, notre plaidoyer auprès des décideurs et les opportunités d'apprentissage en Afrique? Read more...
The Community Water Plus project assesses twenty cases of support to community managed rural water supplies across India. IRC carried out one of these studies around support to community-managed handpumps in Patharpratima, West Bengal. The case study concludes that an effective mechanism for... Read more...
Where will the money come to finance water and sanitation for all by 2030? Not from development aid. Developing countries need to get better at raising taxes. Read more...
Want to know more about sanitation monitoring, influencing and learning in Africa? Read more...
Public Finance for WASH: a new collaborative advocacy and research initiative by WSUP, IRC and Trémolet Consulting. Read more...
The essentials of creating actionable monitoring systems for lasting results. Read more...
To provide ongoing services, local governments need to systematically address the full range of costs, beyond construction of water facilities. This experiment supported districts to apply the life-cycle costs approach and asset management, so that their water and sanitation plans and budgets would... Read more...
Based on a review of the costs of 179 water and sanitation projects carried out by FHIS (Honduran Social Investment Fund) over the last five years, we established the unit cost ranges for different intervention models. We also identified the main factors driving the costs of water and sanitation... Read more...