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On the 3rd of March 2016, a seminar was held at the Australian High Commission in London to present the main findings from the Community Water Plus project on support to community-managed rural water supplies in India. This video contains these presentations.
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The standard approach of financing is not sufficient and not appropriate for long term financing needs of water companies. Water Financing Facilities are a potential mechanism to mobilise additional finance for the sector. They pull utilities and their projects together reducing risk and therefore creating the possibility for longer term loans at considerably lower interest rates.
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Ghana is experiencing economic growth. Donors say that more domestic generated resources need to be raised and channeled to the water and sanitation sector. At the same time there is a decentralisation of responsibilities for water and sanitation to the municipal level. This video outlines the challenges with funding both at national and at decentralised level.
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How can public and private finance be two complementary pieces of the same puzzle in the water and sanitation sector. Compilation video of the IRC Event on public finance. 12 November 2014, 7AM, The Hague, The Netherlands. 12 November 2014
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Financing Post-Construction Support (direct support)", is a video documentary which explores various options and opportunities for post construction support for water and sanitation facilities in Ghana. It draws largely on efforts by two of IRC Ghana's programmes, the Triple-S and WASHCost projects in facilitating sector dialogue and innovations to addresses the situation.
This video was produced in collaboration with the Ghana Watsan Journalists Network.
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This twenty minute feature film looks into the sustainability issues of rural and peri-urban water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services and how lack of planning for operation and maintenance in the end lead to waste of investments.
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Sustaining water facilities in Ghana's rural areas is challenging. Villages are in charge of repairs, but often don't have the money for it.
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What if resources from all projects in a district were brought together? What if in addition to constructing water systems we also planned and financed for their operation and maintenance? A story about a fictitious district in the developing world, and what happened to its water supply.
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The costs and benefits of hygiene promotion are difficult to measure. WASHCost and its partners compared cost data of different interventions in Ghana, Mozambique, Burkina Faso and India to come to an analysis of the cost-effectiveness of interventions.
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WASHCost Mozambique managed to calculate the estimated total costs for building a traditional latrine. The cost data shows that families are massively contributing to improving public health. The data also shows that promotion of hygiene and sanitation is really worth the effort.
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The life-cycle cost approach (LCCA) bringing us closer to WASH services that last. This short animation explains what the life-cycle cost components are and how to measure service, taking into account the indicators of quantity, quality, accessibility and reliability
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Coordinator, Snehalatha, explains how WASHCost (India) will show the Government of India that collecting data on costs and service levels will strengthen their National Rural Water Supply Guidelines.
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Introducing the WASHCost Calculator and the life-cycle costs approach. Check http://www.washcost.org for more information.
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Ever wonder if water will keep running from your tap? The life-cycle cost approach (LCCA) is bringing us closer to WASH services that last
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In India, 4 billion dollars are annually invested in the rural drinking water sector. Hand pumps, pipes and overhead systems are supplied. But in many villages, sufficient clean drinking water is still far from being an everyday reality. The WASHCost India team gathered data on government investments in water, sanitation and hygiene in 187 villages. The data is used so that government can do proper planning for each of the budget components, against the available funds.
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How do you set a tariff for water in a small town in a developing country, so that people can afford to pay and there is enough money to sustain the service? Lamisi Dabire from Triple-S Ghana asks the Akatsi Water and Sanitation Board, in the Volga Region, Ghana.
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