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Priceless! : uncovering the real costs of water and sanitation

This book provides readers with a glimpse into the realities of managing large-scale initiatives with ambitious goals. It reveals that through...
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New book announcement - Priceless! Uncovering the real costs of water and sanitation

Published on: 18/08/2014
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.

Water pump in Mozambique

Reflecting on the 'Future perspectives for rural water supply' debate

Published on: 26/03/2014
What will rural water supply look like in the future? And will it include the handpump or are there viable, and preferable, options?

Water Services that Last Mozambique

How the life-cycle cost approach (LCCA) is bringing us closer to WASH services that last

Published on: 21/05/2013
An animation illustrating the relationship between life-cycle costs and the service delivered.

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Great new animation explains costing so that services last

Published on: 11/05/2013
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...

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Topic 5 - Day 2 presentations: financial monitoring to assess cost effectiveness of sanitation and hygiene interventions

Published on: 19/04/2013
In this folder you can find the presentations related to the joint session on cost effectiveness of sanitation and hygiene interventions

monitoring in Ghana

Datasets now available: WASH expenditure and service levels in four countries 2009-2010

Published on: 08/03/2013
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...

Applying a life-cycle costs approach to water: costs and service levels in rural and small town areas in Andhra Pradesh (India), Burkina Faso, Ghana and Mozambique

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...
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Assessing hygiene cost-effectiveness: a methodology

This paper offers a methodological framework to assess the cost effectiveness of hygiene interventions based on preliminary test observations in...
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Applying the life-cycle costs approach to sanitation : costs and service levels in Andhra Pradesh (India), Burkina Faso, Ghana and Mozambique

Briefing note with key findings on the comparison of the financial costs of a range of traditional and improved latrines and the quality of service...
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A multi dimensional framework for costing sustainable water and sanitation services in low-income settings : lessons from collecting actual life cycle costs for rural and peri-urban areas of Ghana, Burkina Faso, Mozambique and Andhra Pradesh

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Applying the life-cycle costs approach to sanitation: costs and service levels in Andhra Pradesh (India), Burkina Faso, Ghana and Mozambique

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Man on top of water storage tank in Honduras

Ensuring rural water services that last: Lessons from a 13-country study

Published on: 17/03/2011
While the problem of poor sustainability - and the threat it poses to achieving the MDGs - may be well recognised, concrete steps for addressing it are considerably less clear. Triple-S, an IRC initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently completed a 13-country study to...

What’s in a service? : using water service ladders in life-cycle cost analysis

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Ladders for assessing and costing water service delivery

This working paper introduces the concept of service levels, grouped as sequential rungs on a ladder, as a way of differentiating broad and...
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Decentralisation and the use of cost data in WASHCost project countries: synthesis of country reports 2009

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WASHCost data organization and coding protocol

Data protocol, specifying agreements on the organisation, structure, coding and sharing of the information collected in the WASHCost project.
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