The Life-Cycle Cost Approach Indicator list is now available on the WASHCost website. The list allows the costing of sustainable Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) services by assessing life-cycle costs and comparing them to levels of service provided. It contains an overview of 105 key... Read more...
The Country Coordinator for WASHCost Project Ghana, Mr. Alexander Obuobisa-Darko, has reiterated the need for the proper understanding of the cost of providing WASH services for planning and budgeting of operations, maintenance and upgrading to ensure sustainability of WASH services. Read more...
The Vice Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Works and Housing and a former Greater Accra Regional Director of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA), Honourable Edem Asimah, has stated that communities that benefit from water and sanitation projects must contribute to their... Read more...
From 16 to 18 November 2010, IRC’s second symposium gathered some 120 international participants in The Hague, The Netherlands to discuss the latest in discursive trends, research agenda and on-the-ground experiences on WASH service costs, financing and accountability. Read more...
An international group of forty-five WASH professionals participated in the training session “Costing sustainable services: The life-cycle cost approach”, which took place at the WASH 2011 Conference in Brisbane, Australia, May 2011. This training session is part of the “Water and Sanitation... Read more...
The immediate past Director for Technical Services at the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA), Mr. R. K. D. Van Ess has stated that the concept of the Life Cycle Cost Approach (LCCA) on costing WASH services being researched by the WASHCost Project in Ghana, is a laudable one for... Read more...
The Country Director for WASHCost Project Ghana, Dr Kwabena Nyarko, has called on the WASH sector in Ghana to use the Life-Cycle Cost Approach to ensure sustainability of service delivery in the sector. At the CWSA head office, Dr Nyarko said WASHCost has quantified the actual cost of delivering... Read more...
Ton Schouten, Director of IRC’s Triple-S initiative presented the keynote paper at the First Consultation on Developing post-2015 Indicators for Monitoring Drinking-Water and Sanitation in Berlin, held during 3-5 May and organised by WHO and UNICEF. Read more...
The third Africa Conference on Hygiene and Sanitation (AfricaSan3) will be held on 19-22 July 2011 in Kigali, Rwanda. WASHCost will be hosting informative seminars on life-cycle costing at the Serena Hotel. Read more...
WASHCost regularly updates a Flickr page with interesting images from our focus countries. Read more...
Background The sampling strategy is a short document team that describes the justification for the choices made concerning sampling. This strategy enables the teams to get approval from their "LA" members and compare across the project. The structure of report follows the administrative structure... Read more...
