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We are delighted to announce that the WASHCost e-book, Priceless! Uncovering the real costs of water and sanitation, is available for free download on IRCWASH from September 2014. Read more...
Video explores role of local government in the delivery of sustainable WASH services in Ghana, Burkina Faso and Uganda. Read more...
Local governments have a crucial, and increasing role to play in the provision of rural and small town water services. Often, however, they struggle to take up these tasks. In this video, representatives of national government, district local government and WASH service providers from Ghana, Burkina Faso and Uganda share their viewpoints on the challenges, the way forward and the role of national governments and development partners in the support of local governments.
Read more...This paper presents lessons learnt on improving learning in the WASH sector through resource centre networks in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Honduras, Nepal... Read more...
Last week it was World Water Day 2014 , with the topic of "water and energy". I see obvious issues coming by on the water-energy nexus (which by the way is one of those development sector buzz words that I start disliking more every day. I hope the next buzz word is a bit more, uh, sparkling), such... Read more...
A three-country case study looks at aid effectiveness and sustainability in all WASH sectors. Read more...
The WASHTech project may be over but the importance of choosing the right technology remains. Read more...
The results of a three-country hygiene cost effectiveness study make interesting reading. Read more...
Worldwide, traditional toilets are letting people down, with about 2.6 billion people using unsafe ones or defecating in the open. Read more...
Video illustrating the challenge facing technology to provide sustainable water services. Read more...
The Technology Applicability Framework (TAF) provides a comprehensive assessment of sustainability indicators and considers the perspectives of technology users, producers and those introducing a technology. Read more...
Presentations shared during the Triple-S Annual Review and Planning Meeting (ARAP) in Fort Portal Uganda, 6th-11th May 2013. Read more...
An animation illustrating the relationship between life-cycle costs and the service delivered. Read more...
IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre's WASHCost project has released an animation that has been created to help us understand how the life-cycle costs and the service delivered are connected. The life-cycle cost approach can be used to increase financial sustainability and to stop the... Read more...
In this folder you can find the presentations related to the joint session on cost effectiveness of sanitation and hygiene interventions Read more...
We're sharing our WASHCost data on the full costs of providing water and sanitation services over their entire service life-cycle from construction to operation, rehabilitation, and eventual replacement. Detailed studies established these costs and examined how these costs relate to the level of... Read more...
This paper concludes that there is chronic underfunding of rural water services, to meet the costs required to provide and sustain a basic level of... Read more...