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A scientific meeting on the issue of water and sanitation services in large cities is organised on September 19 in Paris Read more...
Water for People (WfP) determines that microfinance helps release public funds to reach the poorest. Read more...
Using real data, we look at how the WASHCost calculator can be used in practice in India. Read more...
At SACOSAN-V in Nepal, IRC shared the WASHCost Calculator with South Asian governments and organisations working on sustainable sanitation. Kathy Shordt gave a sneak preview of the advanced tool based on an example from Venkatapuram, India. Read more...
The 'Value at the end of the Sanitation Value-chain' (VeSV) project aims to develop and adopt business models for a low cost, safe method for the collection and processing of faecal sludge from pit latrines; a method that can be operated by local entrepreneurs and results in the production of a... 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...
Ce document de travail présente les résultats de l’application de la méthodologie d’évaluation du rapport coûts/efficacité d’une intervention d’hygiène sur deux sites au Burkina Faso : Ladiana et Ouahabou. L’intervention ciblée ici porte sur une combinaison d’ateliers villageois et de visites à... Read more...
Information scan on WASH unit costs and financial planning and budgeting This study: "Information scan on WASH unit costs and financial planning and budgeting of the Water and Sanitation Sector in Uganda" presents an overview of the income and expenditure flows in the Ugandan rural water and... Read more...
The African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW) has been awarded a US$ 2 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help countries build capacities for sanitation policy development, monitoring and advocacy. Read more...
Dans le cadre du projet WASHcost, l'IRC s'est intéressé aux coûts et à la performance de l'assainissement dans 6 villages ruraux et 3 sites péri-urbain du Burkina Faso. Read more...
This article provides insight into how the Stockholm Environmental Institute (SEI) used the life-cycle costs approach while collecting household sanitation and hygiene data to support their study on productive and conventional on-site sanitation in Rwanda. Vera van der Grift (IRC) interviewed... Read more...
Building a latrine is only a first step towards an effective sanitation service. The latrine must be used, kept clean, maintained and replaced at the end of its useful life if families and communities are to benefit. The recurrent costs of keeping the latrine clean and maintained, of emptying the... Read more...
Sustaining sanitation is much more expensive than building latrines. The 20-year cost of sustaining a basic level sanitation service per person in WASHCost research areas is 5-20 times the cost of building the latrine in the first place. Read more...
One of the most quoted WASH statistics was recently “downgraded”. For every $1 invested in water and sanitation, not $8 but “only” $4 is returned in economic returns through increased productivity. This recalculation, says WHO, is mainly a result of higher investment cost estimates and the more... Read more...
Sustaining sanitation is much more expensive than building latrines. The 20-year cost of sustaining a basic level sanitation service per person in WASHCost research areas is anywhere from 5-20 times the cost per person of building the latrine in the first place. Read more...
The number of US philanthropists with a passion for sanitation has now doubled. Following in the footsteps of Bill Gates who launched Reinventing the Toilet, "Chief Toilet Hacker" John Kluge aims to provide 1 million toilets in the developing world. To kick-start this endeavour, Eirene, a company... Read more...
WASHCost Briefing Note No. 5 presents findings on access to sanitation services in rural and small towns in Ghana using the Life-Cycle Costs Approach (LCCA) developed by WASHCost for the water, sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector. Read more...
Governments can finance support programmes for sanitation services by the 3 Ts: Taxes, Tariffs and Transfers. Read more...
Journalist Pacôme Tomètissi wants to revisit the fishing communities of Lake Nokoué in Benin to examine the sustainability of a 5 million euro EU-funded water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) project. Read more...