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It requires innovative mechanisms to fill the financing gap between policy and practice. 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...
Implementing the life-cycle costs approach in Burkina Faso. Read more...
A presentation on post-construction support for lasting WASH Services Mozambique. Read more...
Peter Burr examines asset monitoring for sustainable services. Read more...
As we continue work on the WASHCost Calculator, feedback from users is continually shaping development of the tool. The Stockholm World Water Week provided a fantastic opportunity to gather comments and questions on the basic version of the water and sanitation calculator. Fifty individuals,... Read more...
L’approche des coûts à long terme, est –elle la solution à tous les défis dans le secteur de l’eau? Read more...
Looking at what can be done to bring professionalism into community-based water supply. Read more...
L’initiative RAIN de Coca-Cola exige pour l’ensemble de ces projets en matière d’eau d’inclure un volet de budgétisation à long terme qui détaille les coûts annuels d’exploitation, de maintenance et d’appui direct, en accord avec l’approche des coûts à long terme. Read more...
Costing data needs to be included in planning and budgeting processes, to help diversify investment to support the full life-cycle cost of a service, not just the capital expenditure costs of installing something. Read more...
Investing in employee WASH = healthy and more productive employees. Read more...
In Uganda some water committees are allowing users to borrow surplus money in the form of low-interest loans. Could this twist on a traditional loans scheme encourage users to pay their water fees? Read more...
WASHCost, un projet de 14,5 millions $ US sur cinq ans financé par la Fondation Bill & Melinda Gates, et mis en œuvre par le Centre International de l'Eau et de l'Assainissement (IRC) a été une audacieuse initiative mondiale pour acquérir des connaissances précises sur l'eau désagrégée, les... Read more...
WASHCost has been a bold, global attempt to gain accurate knowledge on disaggregated water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) costs in rural and peri-urban areas. This independent End-of-Project assessment, commissioned by IRC, reflects on the lessons learnt from the project. Read more...
Dans le cadre de la mise en œuvre du Programme national d’approvisionnement en eau potable et d’assainissement (PN-AEPA) à l’horizon 2015, le ministère de l’eau, des aménagements hydrauliques et de l’assainissement a initié une étude diagnostique auprès des communes du Burkina Faso afin de... Read more...
Programme managers and funders want to know the costs for the provision of WASH in schools and how to fund the desired outcomes over at least a 10 year period. Read more...
Prepared by Chimbar Tom Laari; presented at the Triple-S Annual Review and Planning Meeting (ARAP), Fort Portal Uganda, 6th-11th May 2013. 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...
A short animation explaining the life-cycle cost components and how to measure service, taking into account the indicators of quantity, quality, accessibility and reliability. Read more...
In Ouagadougou, the WASHCost team found an example of how the water sector could be organized, by looking at existing initiatives using the life-cycle cost approach. Read more...