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A methodology to cost water services in a refugee context

The life-cycle cost approach to costing the provision of water services to refugees in camps

A principle-based approach to sustainable rural water services at scale : moving from vision to...

This Triple-S Working Paper presents the Triple-S Principles Framework and the key concepts behind it. It provides a description of how the...

Aid effectiveness in the water, sanitation and hygiene sector of Honduras

Study on aid effectiveness in Honduras underpinning IRC’s approach based on the understanding that achieving universal and sustainable WASH...

Annotated Water Integrity Scan

This tool serves to increase awareness about water integrity by stimulating debate on the topic and to quickly assess integrity risks in the water sector.

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...

Classifying progress in rural water experiments

This tool provides guidance on a systematic approach to experimenting with innovative solutions to water problems.

Communications strategy development tool

A step by step guidance for developing a communication strategy for your programme.

Costing and Budgeting Tools

This set of tools is developed to support district authorities in planning and budgeting for sustainable water services in their district or municipality.

Developing institutional frameworks for monitoring rural water services in Latin America

Various countries in Latin America have begun monitoring rural water supply service delivery, driven by two objectives: 1) to establish rural water inventories for investment planning, and 2) to target post-construction support. A methodology to define an institutional framework for monitoring was developed in order to avoid problems with the sustainability of the monitoring systems themselves.

Documenting change : an introduction to process documentation

Documenting change is a vitally important activity for learning from and improving upon work carried out.

Faecal Waste Flow Calculator

The tool is developed to determine faecal waste volumes along the entire sanitation service chain, allowing city planners, service authorities or any other users to determine where the biggest losses are and where interventions should be targeted. Less easily quantifiable issues such as the existence of policies and legislation, availability and transparency of plans and budgets, presence and adherence to environmental and safety standards are captured with the use of score cards.

Guidelines for developing a Self-supply acceleration plan for your area

Self-supply, where households or small groups of households take the lead in the development and improvement of their own water supplies is now a recognised approach to realising universal access to safe water in Ethiopia.These guidelines support planning and implementation of activities to enhance and accelerate self-supply at regional, zonal and woreda levels.

Guidelines for planning and providing multiple-use water services

This manual synthesises various existing guidelines on the multiple-use water services (MUS) approach into one concise set of generic guidelines on 'how to do MUS'.

Online training course: costing sustainable services

This is a free-of-charge Moodle training provided by IRC.

Retrospective Currency Converter

This tool can be used to review historical expenditures and derive estimates that can be used for financial planning purposes.

Sanitation Supply and Demand Tool

With the help of this tool a rapid assessment can be done to understand current and potential future supply and demand for sanitation products and services.

Sustainability Monitoring Framework and Sustainability Index

The SMF/SI measures the likelihood of a sustainable WASH service or hygiene behaviour. It investigates if are all the requirements are present needed to ensure a sustainable service. This includes the enabling environment (policy, strategy, capacities, attitudes, behaviours etc.).

Target audience analysis tool

This tool gives guidance for a structured process for identifying communications targets, prioritising these, and defining pathways to influencing...

Technology Applicability Framework

The Technology Applicability Framework (TAF) is a decision support tool on the applicability, scalability and sustainability of a specific WASH technology to provide lasting services in a specific context and on the readiness for its introduction.

Technology Introduction Process

The TIP gives guidance for countries on how to develop country-based technology validation and introduction guidelines and how to apply them so that the sector can learn and develop in terms of innovation.

The EMPOWERS approach to water governance: guidelines, methods and tools

These are a compilation of guidelines, methods and tools for use in processes of planning and dialogue for improved water governance at local and governorate level.

The EMPOWERS approach to water governance: guidelines, methods and tools

Guidelines, methods and tools for use in processes of planning and dialogue within and between local and intermediate levels.

Tools for costing Everyone Forever in Bolivia

The actual tools are in Spanish, but there is an explanation available in English.

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

The Community Water Plus research project studies a sample of twenty of the most successful community-managed rural water programmes in India, examining what type, extent and style of supporting organisations that are prevalent in the rural water supply chain and the resource implications of this. The conceptual framework and methodology described in this working paper are believed to be of relevance beyond this specific research project, and can be used by other studies into support to community-managed rural water supplies.

Using ICT for monitoring rural water services : from data to action

A conceptual framework for using information and communication technologies to improve service delivery in the rural water sector.

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