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Ce document de travail présente les résultats de l’application de la méthodologie d’évaluation du rapport coûts/efficacité d’une intervention d’hygiène sur deux sites au Burkina Faso : Ladiana et Ouahabou. L’intervention ciblée ici porte sur une combinaison d’ateliers villageois et de visites à... Read more...
Information scan on WASH unit costs and financial planning and budgeting This study: "Information scan on WASH unit costs and financial planning and budgeting of the Water and Sanitation Sector in Uganda" presents an overview of the income and expenditure flows in the Ugandan rural water and... Read more...
This study aimed to get an overview over the income and expenditure flows in the Ugandan rural water and sanitation sector, with a special focus on... Read more...
The African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW) has been awarded a US$ 2 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help countries build capacities for sanitation policy development, monitoring and advocacy. Read more...
Practical tools for finance mechanisms feature in a new guide. Read more...
Dans le cadre du projet WASHcost, l'IRC s'est intéressé aux coûts et à la performance de l'assainissement dans 6 villages ruraux et 3 sites péri-urbain du Burkina Faso. Read more...
This article provides insight into how the Stockholm Environmental Institute (SEI) used the life-cycle costs approach while collecting household sanitation and hygiene data to support their study on productive and conventional on-site sanitation in Rwanda. Vera van der Grift (IRC) interviewed... Read more...
Building a latrine is only a first step towards an effective sanitation service. The latrine must be used, kept clean, maintained and replaced at the end of its useful life if families and communities are to benefit. The recurrent costs of keeping the latrine clean and maintained, of emptying the... Read more...
Sustaining sanitation is much more expensive than building latrines. The 20-year cost of sustaining a basic level sanitation service per person in WASHCost research areas is 5-20 times the cost of building the latrine in the first place. Read more...
One of the most quoted WASH statistics was recently “downgraded”. For every $1 invested in water and sanitation, not $8 but “only” $4 is returned in economic returns through increased productivity. This recalculation, says WHO, is mainly a result of higher investment cost estimates and the more... Read more...
Sustaining sanitation is much more expensive than building latrines. The 20-year cost of sustaining a basic level sanitation service per person in WASHCost research areas is anywhere from 5-20 times the cost per person of building the latrine in the first place. Read more...
The number of US philanthropists with a passion for sanitation has now doubled. Following in the footsteps of Bill Gates who launched Reinventing the Toilet, "Chief Toilet Hacker" John Kluge aims to provide 1 million toilets in the developing world. To kick-start this endeavour, Eirene, a company... Read more...
On the 11th of September 2012, IRC debated the pros and cons of sanitation subsidies. These are a common tool used to motivate households to construct toilets. This seems an obvious response: many who lack access to sanitation are extremely poor and the potential public health benefits of universal... Read more...
WASHCost Briefing Note No. 5 presents findings on access to sanitation services in rural and small towns in Ghana using the Life-Cycle Costs Approach (LCCA) developed by WASHCost for the water, sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector. Read more...