The life-cycle cost approach to costing the provision of water services to refugees in camps
This Triple-S Working Paper presents the Triple-S Principles Framework and the key concepts behind it. It provides a description of how the...
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.
This paper offers a methodological framework to assess the cost effectiveness of hygiene interventions based on preliminary test observations in...
This tool provides guidance on a systematic approach to experimenting with innovative solutions to water problems.
A step by step guidance for developing a communication strategy for your programme.
This set of tools is developed to support district authorities in planning and budgeting for sustainable water services in their district or municipality.
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 is a vitally important activity for learning from and improving upon work carried out.
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.
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.
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'.
This is a free-of-charge Moodle training provided by IRC.
This tool can be used to review historical expenditures and derive estimates that can be used for financial planning purposes.
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.
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.).
This tool gives guidance for a structured process for identifying communications targets, prioritising these, and defining pathways to influencing...
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.
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.
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.
Guidelines, methods and tools for use in processes of planning and dialogue within and between local and intermediate levels.
The actual tools are in Spanish, but there is an explanation available in English.
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.
A conceptual framework for using information and communication technologies to improve service delivery in the rural water sector.