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The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) ; IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre and CONIWAS are organizing a training session on“costing sustainable WASH services”on Saturday August 25, 2012. Read more...
This paper offers a methodological framework to assess the cost effectiveness of hygiene interventions based on preliminary test observations in... Read more...
The WASHCost Ghana Project conducted a training workshop on the Life-Cycle Cost Approach (LCCA) in March and April 2012 for three districts in three regions. The training workshop was aimed at equipping participants, especially District Water and Sanitation Teams, the District Planning and... Read more...
On 17 July 2012, Catarina Fonseca, WASHCost project director, participated in a webinar hosted by Global Water Challenge and WASH Advocates. Presenters and participants discussed the practical implications of the recent GLAAS report. The UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and... Read more...
We work with several partner organisations in our focus countries of Burkina Faso, Ghana, India, and Mozambique. Read more...
On Friday 29 June 2012, WASH sector professionals and journalists gathered at Sidwaya (Hebdo newspaper from Ouagadougou) for "Palabres d’eau"—the fourth round of discussions on water and the role journalists play in promoting domestic sanitation in rural areas. Abu-bakr Adiz, Director General of... Read more...
Authors Catarina Fonseca, Rachel Cardone and Sophie Trémolet contributed to a new book titled “The Urban Transformation - Health, Shelter and Climate Change”, published by Routledge on 9 July 2012. The book describes the ongoing urban transformation towards a world in which, by 2050, more than two-... Read more...
A series of videos is being produced on the life-cycle costs approach and its use in Ghana, India, Burkina Faso and Mozambique. Read more...
SaniFaso—a Burkina Faso based programme aimed at building 16,000 latrines in 12 communes throughout the country—is looking at hygiene interventions and use of sanitation facilities in the focus communes. On 12 July, during the final WASHCost team project meeting, members of the WASHCost Burkina... Read more...
WASHCost is developing a free online course to assist water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) professionals around to world with applying life-cycle costing in their work and organisation. The online course can be used by sector professionals with little or no experience of life-cycle costing... Read more...
Global Water Challenge and WASH Advocates invite you to their next webinar—WASH sustainability: looking through the GLAAS. Read more...
Over 40 participants convened in Switzerland to participate in the 28 th AguaSan meeting from 18 to 25 June. People discussed how to financing for sustainability of WASH services. The life-cycle costs approach was at the forefront of this discussion. Read more...
M. Thierry Barbotte, Directeur gestionnaire de Vergnet Hydro SAS et Nico Terra, directeur de l'IRC Centre International de l'Eau et de l'Assainissement ont signé fin mai un protocole d'entente (PE). Y sont définis les collaborations des institutions dans le domaine du développement des... Read more...
An overview of the dilemmas that face community water and sanitation development team. Read more...
Dr K Tirupataiah, Director General, Water and Land Management and Training Institute, Government of Andhra Pradesh mentioned that the Life-Cycle Cost Approach (LCCA) is an innovative tool that helps the decision makers on the analysis of investment patterns and results achieved. In an interview... Read more...