life-cycle cost approach

Finance

Join our ‘Costing Sustainable Services’ e-course in June 2017!

Published on: 08/05/2017

You can sign up for the free life-cycle cost approach e-course starting on 1st of June now.

Retrospective Currency Converter

Published on: 30/01/2017

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...

Tools

Costing and Budgeting Tools

Published on: 07/11/2016

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 kerk@ircwash.org The tools have been developed...

Tools

Sanitation

Stuff you won’t learn sitting in an air-conditioned office

Published on: 04/07/2016

Three takeaways from a field visit to a rural sanitation project in Burkina Faso.

Hygiene, Finance

Hygiene promotion in Bhutan : does it work and at what cost?

This poster on the costs of hygiene promotion in Bhutan was presented at the 2016 WASH Futures Conference in Brisbane, Australia.

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Hygiene promotion in Bhutan

Financiamiento

¿Cuánto cuesta la inversión en agua y saneamiento rural en Honduras? : una comparación de diferentes modelos de intervención

Una comparación de diferentes modelos de intervención.

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¿Cuánto cuesta la inversión en agua y saneamiento rural en Honduras?

Finance

Quick guide to costs

Published on: 20/12/2015

Uncovering and understanding the real costs of water, sanitation and hygiene services by using the life-cycle costs approach.

Finance

Analyzing the cost of water provision in UNHCR refugee camps

How the life-cycle costing approach can be applied in refugee camp situations. Findings from a pilot study in Ethiopia and Chad.

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Finance

Innovative approaches to WASH in emergency situations

Published on: 03/12/2015

Experts discuss technical and institutional innovations in emergency water and sanitation at IRC Event.

Water security, Supporting institutions

Making irrigation work for livelihood diversification

Published on: 30/11/2015

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and government are looking for innovations in their work with smallholder farmers and communities in Lesotho to strengthen their livelihoods and to conserve the environment.

Sanitation, Finance

WASHCost Share Guide

WASHCost Share allows organisations to explore and share information on the cost of water and sanitation services with their key stakeholders.

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WASHCost Share Guide

WASHCost Share Excel Example from BRAC

WASHCost Share Example Expenditure Survey

Supporting institutions

A look back at four years of communal, regional and national partnership in Burkina Faso

This volume is a collection of ideas and solutions with potential, and also of issues and challenges raised by IRC Burkina Faso's team and actors in...

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A look back at four years of communal, regional and national partnership in Burkina Faso

Finance

Trends in financing WASH services in Uganda

Expenditure on recurrent costs like source maintenance account for only 10% of allocated funds

Published on: 29/07/2015

Financing for the water and environment sector in Uganda has shown a declining trend since 2008, leading to a reduction in funding for key aspects of water supply services.

Supporting institutions, Finance

Support to community-managed rural water supply by the Water and Sanitation Management Organization in Kutch District, Gujarat

This study investigates the support services provided by the Water and Sanitation Management Organization (WASMO) in Kutch District, Gujarat.

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Support to community-managed rural water supply by the Water and Sanitation Management Organization in Kutch District, Gujarat

Supporting institutions, Finance

Users becoming managers of water supply; an initiative of Water and Sanitation Management Organization, Gandhinagar District, Gujarat

This study investigates the support services provided by the Water and Sanitation Management Organization (WASMO) in Gandhinagar District, Gujarat.

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Users becoming managers of water supply; an initiative of Water and Sanitation Management Organization, Gandhinagar District, Gujarat

Supporting institutions, Finance

Assessing the costs and impacts of support to community managed rural water supply in India; how to?

Published on: 05/06/2015

For community-managed rural water supply to be sustainable, a "plus" is needed: special efforts to empower communities during project implementation, and continued support from government during service delivery. The Community Water Plus project seeks to get a better understanding of the costs of...

Finance, Supporting institutions

Understanding the resource implications of the ’plus‘ in community management of rural water supply systems in India: concepts and research methodology.

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Understanding the resource implications of the ’plus‘ in community management of rural water supply systems in India: concepts and research methodology

Hygiene, Finance

School WASH programmes in Bangladesh : how much does it cost? : applying the life-cycle costs approach in selected upazilas

This study presents the first adaptation of the life-cycle costs approach to school WASH interventions. It is based on a survey of the sanitation and...

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School WASH programmes in Bangladesh : how much does it cost? : applying the life-cycle costs approach in selected upazilas

Key websites and resources on institutional WASH

Sanitation, Finance

Creating demand for toilets does not mean everyone can pay for them: affordability and the s-word

Published on: 30/04/2015

The world will not reach the sanitation Millennium Development Goal. There are still 1 in 3 people worldwide without access to safe sanitation. Within 15 years we want universal sanitation coverage and we know that we need to do something drastically different to reach scale and to reach the...

Finance, Supporting institutions

Tools for costing Everyone Forever in Bolivia

Published on: 05/03/2015

Water For People, IRC and Aguaconsult have developed a set of tools to support the financial planning to reach Everyone Forever with water services. These tools were validated in the municipalities of Tiraque and Araní in Bolivia.

Financiamiento, Apoyo local

Herramientas de costeo: para llegar a servicios de agua Para Todos, Por Siempre en Bolivia

Published on: 05/03/2015

Water For People, IRC y Aguaconsult han desarrollado un conjunto de herramientas para analizar los costos de llegar a una cobertura universal en agua, que dure para siempre, que a su vez sirva para identificar posibles brechas financieras. Las herramientas fueron validadas en los municipios de...

Sanitation, Hygiene, Finance

Costs, equity and affordability of sanitation in Bangladesh for low income rural households : applying the life-cycle costs approach to the Bagherpara Upazila

BRAC WASH has had a transformative effect on latrine construction in Bagherpara, Bangladesh – especially for the ultra-poor who cannot afford to...

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Costs, equity and affordability of sanitation in Bangladesh for low income rural households

Water security, Finance

Preparing for droughts: How pastoralists in Kenya can have water all year long

Published on: 10/02/2015

How do you set up a reliable water supply system when an area is facing ten months of extreme drought every year? How do you make sure that the one thing that matters, your cattle, stay alive? "You start planning for the worst."

Water security, Finance

Financing for sustainability in the Kenya Arid Lands

Published on: 19/12/2014

Who is responsible for improving the resilience of local population in the Kenya Arid lands against natural disasters and impact of climate change? And who pays the bills for sustainable water services? This was one of the questions that came up during workshops held in Kenya in October 2014.

Finance

Costing water services in a refugee context : methodological report

This report, commissioned by UNHCR, presents a methodology to cost water services in post-emergency situations as well as in first emergency...

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