Could lack of definition be undermining the impact of effective but costly support? 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...
John Sauer, Water for People, and Nick Dickinson, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, identify what is needed to properly and sustainably provide WASH services. Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) organisations are often asked by donors to quantify their projects in unit cost or cost... Read more...
Assessing Sanitation Service levels: A New Approach is the article by Alana Potter, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, that was published in: Sanitation Matters, Issue 2, 2011. Read more...
In an upcoming IRC Occasional Paper (OP Series 46), IRC, WASHCost and the Rain Foundation will present findings from a Rainwater Harvesting Study. Research indicates that collecting water from rain can be advantageous on many levels. If one takes into account the life-cycle costs of the system and... Read more...
The World Bank and USAID sponsored a discussion of the Sustainable Services at Scale (Triple-S) research report at World Bank headquarters. Read more...
Why do families build toilets? If the family tradition for many generations has been to defecate in the open – using local woods or accepted sites, then what is the incentive to make a break and opt for a toilet instead? Read more...
At the Third Ghana Water Forum held in Accra, 5 - 7 September 2011, WASHCost presented research findings, new briefing notes, and the country coordinator discusses the way forward. Mr. Eugene Appiah-Effah, a WASHCost Ghana Research Officer presented on the topic ‘Cost of rural and small town water... Read more...
During this free full-day seminar, as part of the RWSN Forum on Friday 2 December 2011, we will focus on the use of the life-cycle costs approach for water and sanitation building on experiences in rural and peri-urban areas in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Andhra Pradesh (India) and Mozambique. Read more...
James Batchelor of the WASHCost team uses spatial analysis completed over the past year on 20 villages in Andhra Paradesh to demonstrate the effectiveness of mapping as a way of analysing and understanding factors that influence life-cycle costs and WASH service levels. Read more...
The WASHCost Mozambique team recently reflected on its past research process and how they will move forward into the coming years. Their key focus for moving into latter half of the WASHCost programme is to provide evidence on the practicality of the WASHCost approach on the ground, as well as... Read more...
Read the new series of briefing notes on “Life-cycle costs approach for WASH services that last”. It highlights findings on the life-cycle costs and levels of service delivery in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector in Ghana. Read more...
