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Stress of water-fetching reduced with coupon scheme. Read more...
High breakdown rates of systems in rural Burkina Faso are the visible results of still poorly functioning water supply services. But in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's capital, WASHCost found an example of how the water sector could be organized, by looking at the model of ONEA water company which is... Read more...
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. Read more...
This twenty minute feature film looks into the sustainability issues of rural and peri-urban water, sanitation and hygiene services Read more...
Many rural water systems in Ghana fail prematurely. This is estimated to be around 30 percent at any given point in time. Sometimes, these failures are attributed to a lack of clearly defined roles and responsibilities for sector actors and institutions. It is often the case that, once water... Read more...
It requires innovative mechanisms to fill the financing gap between policy and practice. Read more...
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
Read more...Implementing the life-cycle costs approach in Burkina Faso. Read more...
A presentation on post-construction support for lasting WASH Services Mozambique. Read more...
Peter Burr examines asset monitoring for sustainable services. Read more...
Fee-based approaches alone won't cut it when it comes to getting decent-quality services to the poor. Read more...
Looking at what can be done to bring professionalism into community-based water supply. Read more...
In Uganda some water committees are allowing users to borrow surplus money in the form of low-interest loans. Could this twist on a traditional loans scheme encourage users to pay their water fees? Read more...
Prepared by Chimbar Tom Laari; presented at the Triple-S Annual Review and Planning Meeting (ARAP), Fort Portal Uganda, 6th-11th May 2013. Read more...
Life-cycle costs represent the aggregate costs of ensuring delivery of adequate, equitable and sustainable WASH services indefinitely to a population in a specified area. These costs include: Capital expenditure on hardware and software (CapEx) Operating and minor maintenance expenditure (OpEx)... Read more...
This includes the structured support activities to service providers as well as to users or user groups. This may be provided in a variety of ways by either local governments directly, by regional utility agencies, specialized agencies or external contractors or a by combination of these modalities. Read more...
IRC Uganda started the process of introducing the LCCA in the Ugandan water and sanitation sector in 2011, and has since carried out an information scan on funding in the Uganda WASH sector. Read more...
This working paper provides evidence on current practices around funding capital maintenance and the resulting impact on services. Read more...