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This working paper unpacks what is meant by the enabling environment for finance in WASH and presents real examples of how these bottlenecks are... Read more...
Financial monitoring will be useful only if governments lead in setting the service-level standards they want to deliver to citizens. Read more...
Study seeks solutions for sustainable small-town water service delivery. Read more...
Innovative mechanisms for the financing of capital maintenance of piped systems in Ghana may not necessarily fix the problems of poor service... Read more...
One of the myths that keeps on going around in the rural water supply sector is the one of 'full cost recovery'. As more data from rural water monitoring systems becomes available, the myth gets busted. Read more...
A summary of the side-event at the Third International Conference on Financing for Development July 15th 2015, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The session highlighted how domestic resource mobilization is critical to the achievement of goal 6, and to fill the substantial gap between current levels of... Read more...
Traditionally we've looked to the three Ts to finance water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services, with the focus on transfers and tariffs. But this leaves a large financing gap. One which, if we don't solve, will make us miss the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of universal access. Read more...
We have to spend more and faster than we are doing now if we want everyone to have water and sanitation by 2030. Read more...
Een cruciaal onderdeel van de financiering van de nieuwe ontwikkelingsdoelen 2015 - 2030 is belasting, zo pleiten Stef Smits en Catarina Fonseca in vakblad voor ontwikkelingssamenwerking Vice Versa. Zonder belasting zouden wij in Nederland geen duurzame water- en sanitaire voorzieningen hebben. In... Read more...
In this blog, economist and IRC's head of innovation and international programme Catarina Fonseca argues that taxation is crucial in reaching the post-2015 development agenda. "Tax is a prerequisite for governments to become truly democratically accountable to their people," she says. Read more...
The growth of inequality is a major threat to prosperity and stability. Government leadership and government investment is needed to provide water and sanitation services to the poor. Read more...
Il faudrait que les gouvernements, la société civile et le secteur privé agissent de concert pour rendre les services d'eau et d'assainissement accessibles à tous. Read more...
IRC's event on November 12th explored how public finance can be used effectively together with aid and private finance to support sustainable services at scale. Read more...
Governments, civil society and the private sector need to work together to make water and sanitation services available to everyone. IRC's event provided an opportunity to discuss how taxes can complement trade and tariffs and to learn from an innovative health insurance model in Africa. Read more...
Dans ce blog, Catarina Fonseca, responsable du programme international et d’innovations d’IRC, traite du financement des objectifs de développement pour l’après-2015. Selon elle, « une part importante des fonds pour le développement devraient provenir d’autres sources ». À savoir des finances... Read more...
In this blog, IRC's head of innovation and international programme Catarina Fonseca discusses the financing of the post-2015 development goals. "A substantial part of funding for development should be sought elsewhere," she argues. Through public finance. Or tax, as we call it. Read more...
Public finance- money derived from taxation- is critical for achieving water, sanitation and hygiene for everyone forever. But how do we get governments to prioritise it? What should it be used for? And how can we get it flowing to local levels? WSUP, IRC and Trémolet Consulting will be exploring... Read more...
Regulation is a key function for delivering sustainable water services, both in urban and rural environments. Read more...
Driven amongst others by the mobile phone applications, more and more statistics are becoming available on the state of water services. These go well beyond the coverage data we were used to in the JMP reports (and which this year gave us some reason to be mildly optimistic). The new stats provide... Read more...