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The Government of India has announced a 40%-60% increase in spending on sanitation from April 2012 and says it will more than double the subsidy that goes to rural families who build a toilet at home. This is part of an effort to transform the role of sanitation in rural areas where, according to... Read more...
This Information sheet opens the discussion on Cost of Capital. Read more...
Fontes Foundation has tracked the cost of small piped water schemes for years. According to Lucrezia Keoster from Fontes Foundation Uganda, following up on investments is important for sustainability. Showing what it will cost with the actual data and figures makes all the difference for donors... Read more...
Mr. Clement Bugase, Chief Executive of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA), announced that the CWSA is now adopting integrated cost budgeting for its facilities in order to ensure sustainability. Integrated cost budgeting is a costing system that takes into consideration the various... Read more...
WASHCost Project Ghana has published (online) the first batch of a series of Community Reports. These communities are located in the three focus districts of the WASHCost project in the Bosomtwi (Ashanti region), Ketu South (Volta region) and East Gonja (Northern region) of Ghana. Read more...
Analysis of contract costs of PEC-Zonal Activities in Mozambique from 2008 up to 2011 by Júlia Zita and Arjen Naafs. Read more...
WASHCost Ghana Capital maintenance (CapManEx) is the punch on the jaw that you didn’t see coming. It is the knock out blow that lands you on your back with little prospect of getting up in time to beat the count. Though CapManEx is economics and not boxing; and the blow is metaphorical, not... Read more...
The Government of Uganda invited experts from Mozambique, Ghana, and IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre to share their experiences using the life-cycle costs approach (LCCA) to improve sector performance. This approach is raising awareness of the potential for life-cycle costs to achieve... Read more...
The Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) in Ghana is considering a combination of insurance coverage options and mutual funds between villages to secure money for future repairs and maintenance of water systems in rural areas. Vida Duti, IRC Ghana Director explains in a video. Read more...
Director of WASHCost Ghana, Dr. Kwabena Nyarko, says that budgets to support rural communities who manage their own water supplies are “woefully inadequate”. Read about the problems that village WATSAN committees face and what WASHCost Ghana is doing to help alleviate these issues. Read more...
Snehalatha Sreedhar, Coordinator of WASHCost India, explains how the WASHCost will work with the Government on how to better contribute to national rural water supply guidelines. Read more...
During the RWSN Forum 2011 in Kampala, Patrick Moriarty took time to explain why the impact of IRC's international initiatives will take at least three to five years to realise. Read more...
WASHCost Project Director, Catarina Fonseca discusses how the life-cycle costs approach is making a splash in the water sector and what work still needs to be done. Read more...
Planning and budgeting for recurrent annual expenditure is a key challenge for sustainable service delivery. To assist with the analysis of recurrent costs to keep a system running, the life-cycle cost approach uses ‘building blocks’ to visualise and analyse these costs. Read more...
The water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector has limited collective memory of costs and commitments. In addressing that, we saw that publication of simple contract data triggered a vigorous discussion on unit costs. Read more...
Sustainability of water and sanitation systems is under threat when beneficairies fail to pay for use. Community members want facilities but are not ready to pay tariff to ensure the availability of funds for their servicing and maintenance. WASHCost Ghana looks at two communities where toilet and... Read more...
“I love what I do as an area mechanic because in my own small way I ensure that community boreholes are constantly working, providing regular supply of water to the people to improve their standards of living and their health.” Read more...
Developing capacity and leveraging investment are two necessary factors for sustainable water service delivery. But understanding costs beyond the infrastructure stage is also a crucial building block for ensuring indefinite water flow. World Water Corps® Manager, Andrew Britton, explains how Water... Read more...
Capital maintenance (CapManEx) is the punch on the jaw you didn’t see coming – the knock out blow that lands you on your back with little prospect of getting up in time to beat the count. Read more...
WASH views in the Abono community, Ghana Read more...