Building blocks can be used as a tool to analyse a WASH system in a country or a district. A quick and easy tool has been developed to assess the status of each building block at national or district level. How does it work? This Excel tool can be used to assess the status of the building blocks to...
Please note: this is a beta-version of the Retrospective Currency Converter; this tool is currently being tested in several countries. We invite you to use the tool and send us your feedback. Contact us in case you have any questions or suggestions via kerk@ircwash.org . This tool has been...
Many people, including the poor, are willing to pay for good sanitation that will satisfy their needs and desires if these products and services are affordable, packaged and marketed appropriately, and if they are easily accessible. To understand current and potential supply and demand for...
Please note : this is a beta-version of the Costing and Budgeting Tools; these tools are currently being tested in several countries. We invite you to use the tools and send us your feedback. Contact us in case you have any questions or suggestions via training @ircwash.org The tools have been...
Please note: this is a beta-version of the Faecal Waste Flow Calculator; this tool is currently being tested in several countries. We invite you to use the tool and send us your feedback. You can send your questions or suggestions to baetings@ircwash.org What is the tool about? A pressing concern...
Why it is important? An estimated 10% of total funds in the WASH sector are lost due to corruption. Probably an even larger percentage is lost due to poor management and accountability. Measures to increase water integrity are crucial to reduce the risks for such losses. Purpose The main purposes...
This tool allows programme development partner staff to make an assessment of the WASH sector from a sustainability perspective in any given country. It was developed under the Triple-S initiative by IRC and Aguaconsult, originally at the request of USAID, and draws on aspects of a similar tool...
What it is? An innovation typically goes through several phases, before it is fully scaled up. In each of those phases, different questions regarding the effectiveness and efficiency of the innovation need to be answered. Why it is important? It is important to follow such a systematic process, in...
This document describes a practical and logical framework of activities based on the involvement of those who use and manage water. The guidelines advocate a process of collaboration through dialogue, to bring about a change in the way water sector professionals and water users work with each other...
The MUS approach considers the multiple needs of (poor) water users, who take water from a number of sources, and communities' own priorities as the starting point for investments in new infrastructure, management arrangements, the rehabilitation of existing infrastructure, or for improvements in...
Why the tool is needed? For the last thirty years, community-based management has been the predominant service delivery model for rural water supply in Latin America. Despite its spread throughout the region, this model faces many challenges. A significant percentage of rural water systems under-...
Why this tool is needed? WASH practitioners can draw upon a number of different technology options when delivering water supply, sanitation and hygiene services. There are many different types of pumps, different ways of powering pumping, different latrines and different hand-washing facilities. At...
Why this tool is needed? WASH practitioners can draw upon a number of different technology options when delivering water supply, sanitation and hygiene services. There are many different types of pumps, different ways of powering pumping, different latrines and different hand-washing facilities. At...
What is this tool? This is a methodology to cost water services that has been adapted from the lifecycle costs approach (LCCA) initially developed and tested in regular settlements and which has currently been adopted by more than 80 organisations across the world. LCCA is a cost / benefit approach...
Why is this tool needed? Community-based organisations have shown to be able to operate and maintain their water supplies on a day-to-day level. But they often need support in addressing challenges that are beyond their capacity, such as major replacements. In India - as elsewhere - a range of...
In the department of Cochabamba, Bolivia, Water For People (WFP) is working with municipalities towards Everyone Forever. This means providing water and sanitation services for the entire population in these municipalities, and that there services are sustainable. To get to this state it is...
Why use this tool? When families invest their own time and money in securing their water supply we should sit up and take notice. Nothing is more demand-driven than what people choose to do for themselves. Self-supply happens when people dig their own wells or construct water harvesting systems at...
