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Vera van der Grift, IRC Information Officer gives examples of how the life-cycle costs approach has been taken up by global level actors. From international donors to regional lending banks, WASH sector actors are thinking about the importance of financing asset management and capital replacement... Read more...
How do you set a tariff for water in a small town, so that people can afford to pay and there is enough money to sustain the service?" Read more...
IRC Ghana has organised a Life-Cycle Cost Approach (LCCA) training for participants at the Mole Conference XXIII. The main message brought by facilitator Dr Nyarko, country director for WASHCost Ghana, was the need to properly budget for activities throughout the life-time of a system and he... Read more...
I have written before about our work on life-cycle cost analysis (LCCA) in Honduras. The idea is to look into the real costs of investment programmes and projects in Honduras, so see which intervention model is the most cost-effective. Read more...
The costing sustainable services training that took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, between the 8 th -10 th of May 2012 examined ways to improve the financing of water service delivery in Ethiopia and specifically to increase the sustainability of service delivery. The main gaps that were... Read more...
Tamale, the Northern Regional capital of Ghana has hosted the final in the series of Life Cycle Cost Approach (LCCA) training for selected districts in three regions of Ghana. The training is to build the capacity of the relevant technical staff involved in budgeting and planning for water,... Read more...
Seminario organizado por el FHIS y el IRC sobre homologación de modelos de intervención y el uso de datos de costos. Read more...
Financing water and sanitation improvements for the very poor remains a major challenge over large areas of the globe. IRC and WSUP show that effective solutions to this challenge do exist. See discussion paper: Financing water and sanitation for the poor: six key solutions (below). Which of the... Read more...
WASHTech project is using cost components of LCCA in the financial indicators for validating WASH technologies. Read more...
Mr. Clement Bugase, Chief Executive of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA), announced that the CWSA is now adopting integrated cost budgeting for its facilities in order to ensure sustainability. Integrated cost budgeting is a costing system that takes into consideration the various... Read more...
The Government of Uganda invited experts from Mozambique, Ghana, and IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre to share their experiences using the life-cycle costs approach (LCCA) to improve sector performance. This approach is raising awareness of the potential for life-cycle costs to achieve... Read more...
Briefing note describing the life-cycle costs approach and why it was developed. 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...
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...