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...
This paper is about the costs of providing direct and indirect support to rural water service provision and provides an overview of the features such... Read more...
Briefing note with key findings on the comparison of the financial costs of a range of traditional and improved latrines and the quality of service... 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...
Briefing note describing the life-cycle costs approach and why it was developed. 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...
