Tettje is involved in communication in the Change hub team and focuses on editing, web publishing and communication outreach. Tettje supports in preparing documents for publishing online and in print. She is giving web instruction, is co-writer of blogs and documents, and is involved in communication activities and responsible for quality control of written texts. Tettje has a degree in English language and literature of the University of Utrecht and has worked as editor for various employers in the past.
Asset management is critical for all WASH systems as 30% of the infrastructure is often not working. Read more...
What are the challenges and why do we need public finance to reach the Sustainable Development Goals. Read more...
An animation illustrating the relationship between life-cycle costs and the service delivered. Read more...
Prof Ratna Reddy presented on a life-cycle costs approach (LCCA) as a means to achieving sustainable service delivery. Though various components of LCCA are not new, Prof Reddy reported that life-cycle costs are often not considered in budgeting for WASH. Read more...
The third Costing Sustainable Services online course for WASH sector professionals is now open for registration. Read more...
Often, local institutions of communities play an important role in improving the WASH service delivery and standards of services. The Water Committee in Jankampet village, Andhra Pradesh (India) teaches a few new lessons on WASH governance, investments and service levels as this short film shows. Read more...
Governments can finance support programmes for sanitation services by the 3 Ts: Taxes, Tariffs and Transfers. Read more...
Authors Catarina Fonseca, Rachel Cardone and Sophie Trémolet contributed to a new book titled “The Urban Transformation - Health, Shelter and Climate Change”, published by Routledge on 9 July 2012. The book describes the ongoing urban transformation towards a world in which, by 2050, more than two-... Read more...
André Uandela - Country Director WASHCost Mozambique stated that in order for a household to move up a step on the sanitation service ladder, a household will need to pay 2.5 times more than what was originally spent for the current service level. Read more...
WASHCost is developing a free online course to assist water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) professionals around to world with applying life-cycle costing in their work and organisation. The online course can be used by sector professionals with little or no experience of life-cycle costing... 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...
Financing water and sanitation improvements for the very poor remains a major challenge over large areas of the globe. In a dynamic session at the World Water Forum in Marseille participants were asked to choose the best solution from 6 proposed by IRC and WSUP in their paper 6 Key Solutions for... 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...