UNICEF is developing and testing the “Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Bottleneck Analysis Tool (WASH-BAT)”. This tool integrates, among others “the approaches and concepts of other recent tools and initiatives in the WASH sector. Read more...
The GLAAS questionnaire on aid disbursements for WASH includes a question on maintaining and improving service levels. Read more...
In partnership with IRC and the Rainwater Harvesting Implementation Network, WASHCost studied the historical trends and drivers of adopting Rain Water Harvesting (RWH). Detailed comparisons are made between life-cycle costs of RWH systems and the life-cycle costs of other water supply systems. Read more...
Planners and decision makers expect to know what a technology will cost and what it will deliver, including the traditional technologies used for rainwater harvesting. But collecting and analysing these costs, even for age old technologies, is not straightforward since documentation of actual costs... Read more...
The Government of India has announced a 40%-60% increase in spending on sanitation from April 2012 and says it will more than double the subsidy that goes to rural families who build a toilet at home. This is part of an effort to transform the role of sanitation in rural areas where, according to... Read more...
A inflação é responsável por diversas distorções na orçamentação. As principais distorções identificadas para o sector são: • Quando se estiver a fazer a orçamentação de qualquer projecto tem de se levar em conta as projecções inflacionárias, para reduzir ou minimizar as perdas do valor do dinheiro... Read more...
Este texto informativa pretende abrir uma discussão sobre os Custos de Capital. Quanto é que o sector paga (indirectamente) por intervenções do passado e quanto é que o sector planeia pagar no futuro? Texto escrito por Arjen Naafs e Kassie Rousseau. Read more...
This Information sheet opens the discussion on Cost of Capital. Read more...
Fontes Foundation has tracked the cost of small piped water schemes for years. According to Lucrezia Keoster from Fontes Foundation Uganda, following up on investments is important for sustainability. Showing what it will cost with the actual data and figures makes all the difference for donors... Read more...
Mr. Clement Bugase, Chief Executive of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA), announced that the CWSA is now adopting integrated cost budgeting for its facilities in order to ensure sustainability. Integrated cost budgeting is a costing system that takes into consideration the various... Read more...
WASHCost Project Ghana has published (online) the first batch of a series of Community Reports. These communities are located in the three focus districts of the WASHCost project in the Bosomtwi (Ashanti region), Ketu South (Volta region) and East Gonja (Northern region) of Ghana. Read more...
Analysis of contract costs of PEC-Zonal Activities in Mozambique from 2008 up to 2011 by Júlia Zita and Arjen Naafs. Read more...
The costs presented in this document are the minimum costs of access to sanitation. They are inevitably less than the life-cycle costs of a sustainable sanitation service. Moreover, the unit cost calculated on the basis of household expenditures can by no means be considered as an estimate of the... Read more...
L’objectif de ce document de travail est de définir les niveaux de service d’assainissement qui serviront d’outils analytiques pour étudier les coûts désagrégés de l’assainissement dans le cadre du projet WASHCost. Il gagne à être lu à la suite du document de travail 2, intitulé « Échelle d’... Read more...
In India, though considerable investments are made through the Total Sanitation Campaign (flagship program of Govt of India) the ground realities of sanitation facilities are very poor and alarmingly dangerous for human health. Read more...
WASHCost Ghana Capital maintenance (CapManEx) is the punch on the jaw that you didn’t see coming. It is the knock out blow that lands you on your back with little prospect of getting up in time to beat the count. Though CapManEx is economics and not boxing; and the blow is metaphorical, not... Read more...
The Government of Uganda invited experts from Mozambique, Ghana, and IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre to share their experiences using the life-cycle costs approach (LCCA) to improve sector performance. This approach is raising awareness of the potential for life-cycle costs to achieve... Read more...
Le coût des latrines au Burkina Faso: une application de l'approche des coûts à long terme a été presenté par Richard Bassono le 21.12.2011 au Forum National de l'eau et de l'assainissement. Read more...
The Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) in Ghana is considering a combination of insurance coverage options and mutual funds between villages to secure money for future repairs and maintenance of water systems in rural areas. Vida Duti, IRC Ghana Director explains in a video. Read more...
Director of WASHCost Ghana, Dr. Kwabena Nyarko, says that budgets to support rural communities who manage their own water supplies are “woefully inadequate”. Read about the problems that village WATSAN committees face and what WASHCost Ghana is doing to help alleviate these issues. Read more...