WASHCost global briefing notes

Contains:

• Life-cycle costs approach : costing sustainable services
• Services are forever: the importance of capital maintenance (CapManEx) in ensuring sustainable WASH services
• The cost of capital : costs of financing capital expenditure for water and sanitation
• Decentralisation and the use of cost data in WASHCost project countries: synthesis of country reports 2009
• Applying the life-cycle costs approach to sanitation: costs and service levels in Andhra Pradesh (India), Burkina Faso, Ghana and Mozambique