African ministers have committed to do what they can ‘in our own back yard’ by using local finance for sanitation rather than depend on hand-outs. They were following the advice of President Kagame of Rwanda who opened AfricaSan 3, the … Read more...
Why do families build toilets? If the family tradition for many generations has been to defecate in the open – using local woods or accepted sites, then what is the incentive to make a break and opt for a toilet instead? Read more...
At the Third Ghana Water Forum held in Accra, 5 - 7 September 2011, WASHCost presented research findings, new briefing notes, and the country coordinator discusses the way forward. Mr. Eugene Appiah-Effah, a WASHCost Ghana Research Officer presented on the topic ‘Cost of rural and small town water... Read more...
During this free full-day seminar, as part of the RWSN Forum on Friday 2 December 2011, we will focus on the use of the life-cycle costs approach for water and sanitation building on experiences in rural and peri-urban areas in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Andhra Pradesh (India) and Mozambique. Read more...
The UK Department of International Development (DFID) has provided international charity WaterAid with an annual grant of £4.2 million (US$ 7.8 millon) over three years. Read more...
James Batchelor of the WASHCost team uses spatial analysis completed over the past year on 20 villages in Andhra Paradesh to demonstrate the effectiveness of mapping as a way of analysing and understanding factors that influence life-cycle costs and WASH service levels. Read more...
The WASHCost Mozambique team recently reflected on its past research process and how they will move forward into the coming years. Their key focus for moving into latter half of the WASHCost programme is to provide evidence on the practicality of the WASHCost approach on the ground, as well as... Read more...
Research conducted by WASHCost has highlighted just how little is known about what communities invest in toilets, sanitation and hygiene. The analysis of costs and service levels is providing the best available data based on expenditures of governments, programmes and households – as illustrated... Read more...
Read the new series of briefing notes on “Life-cycle costs approach for WASH services that last”. It highlights findings on the life-cycle costs and levels of service delivery in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector in Ghana. Read more...
The Life-Cycle Cost Approach Indicator list is now available on the WASHCost website. The list allows the costing of sustainable Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) services by assessing life-cycle costs and comparing them to levels of service provided. It contains an overview of 105 key... Read more...
Em Novembro de 2010 WASHCost Moçambique fez a sua primeira apresentação de resultados preliminares da sua pesquisa em Moçambique. Também fizemos apresentações ulteriores, que estão aqui disponíveis Read more...
Esta série visa estudar os Determinantes da inflação no sector de água e saneamento; a Variação Cambial em Moçambique e seu impacto no sector de ASH bem como a Paridade do Poder de Compra (PPC).Essas variaveis são importantes para a melhor orçamentação, planificação e alocação de recursos, pelo que... Read more...
O objectivo desta série de documentos do WASHCost Moçambique é de analisar os valores dos contractos assinados pelo Governo entre os anos de 2009 a 2011. Assim, os três documentos que levam todos a designação C0, se debruçam sobre os contractos de construção de furos, reabilitação, fiscalização e... Read more...
The Country Coordinator for WASHCost Project Ghana, Mr. Alexander Obuobisa-Darko, has reiterated the need for the proper understanding of the cost of providing WASH services for planning and budgeting of operations, maintenance and upgrading to ensure sustainability of WASH services. Read more...
The Vice Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Works and Housing and a former Greater Accra Regional Director of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA), Honourable Edem Asimah, has stated that communities that benefit from water and sanitation projects must contribute to their... Read more...
A good governance and accountability project has served as a catalyst for decentralisation in three West Nile districts in Uganda, empowering grass root communities to demand water and sanitation services and actively participate in affairs that affect them. This is the main conclusion of an... Read more...
Registration is open for the Global Forum on Sanitation and Hygiene, Mumbai, 9-14 October 2011. And the new Global WASH Campaign is here: Good Dignity Practices for Gross Domestic Product (GDP for GDP). Read more...
Life-cycle costs represent the aggregate costs of ensuring delivery of sustainable WASH services through a system’s cycle of wear, repair and renewal. That message was delivered at the WASH Conference 2011: "Towards sustainability in water, sanitation and hygiene" in Brisbane, Australia,... Read more...
The IRC Support Group to the European Union Water Initiative (EUWI) Africa Working Group (AWG) contributed to two new briefing notes to help policy and decision makers implement some of the high level declarations that call for accelerated progress to meet sanitation and water targets in Africa. Read more...
From 16 to 18 November 2010, IRC’s second symposium gathered some 120 international participants in The Hague, The Netherlands to discuss the latest in discursive trends, research agenda and on-the-ground experiences on WASH service costs, financing and accountability. Read more...