Can households in Asia be given better information about the sanitation choices they can make and more options for financing them? Is the role of women in small scale sanitation businesses being overlooked? These were some of the questions that flowed from an enthusiastic five-day workshop in Dien... Read more...
Small-scale private providers increase water supply coverage and reduce time spent on fetching water, often providing a vital service, particularly for low-income households in sub-Saharan Africa. However, in the absence of a coherent policy framework with effective tariff enforcement and water... Read more...
No dia 05 de Novembro, o WASHCost Moçambique fez uma apresentação dos resultados preliminares da pesquisa. Abaixo vai a metodologia usada para a pesquisa. Read more...
No dia 05 de Novembro de 2010, o WASHCost Moçambique apresentou os seus resultados preliminares da pesquisa que foram apreciados pela comunidade do sector de água e saneamento em Moçambique. Read more...
O objectivo deste documento da WASHCost Moçambique é de analisar os valores dos contractos assinados pelo Governo no ano 2009. O segundo objectivo é, apartir da análise dos contratos de 2009 fazer uma previsão de valores a considerar entre 2010 a 2012. Read more...
Background The sampling strategy is a short document team that describes the justification for the choices made concerning sampling. This strategy enables the teams to get approval from their "LA" members and compare across the project. The structure of report follows the administrative structure... Read more...
A estratégia de amostragem é um documento breve da equipa que fundamenta as escolhas feitas em relação à amostra. Esta estratégia permite às equipas obter autorização dos membros da “AA” e compará-la em todo o projecto.A estrutura do relatório segue a estrutura administrativa a partir do nível... Read more...
Updated arrangements for the UN-Water Trust Fund have moved the responsibility for administering the Fund from the rotating UN-Water Chair to a permanent anchoring in the United Nations Office for Project Service (UNOPS). The new arrangements call for an MoU between each of the 27 UN-Water member... Read more...
Urban municipalities are looking into several means of improving sanitation in their cities. An article written by WASHCost India gives insight into practices of a small town in Andhra Pradesh. Read more...
SNV staff from Vietnam published a short story from the "Rural Sanitation Supply Chains and Finance" workshop from January 16 to 21, 2011, that SNV Vietnam organized jointly with IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre and SNV Asia in the north western Dien Bien province. Read more...
I wipe the dust from my eyes for what feels like the hundredth time, resist the urge to scratch the nagging bites around my ankles, and lean in closer to hear what Gladys Quispe has to say, as the squeaking pigs and clucking chickens compete with the feisty Bolivian woman. Read more...
While the problem of poor sustainability - and the threat it poses to achieving the MDGs - may be well recognised, concrete steps for addressing it are considerably less clear. Triple-S, an IRC initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently completed a 13-country study to... Read more...
The IRC 2010 international symposium posed a series of challenges to the water and sanitation sector to improve its ability to cost and finance sustainable services – and to understand the price that communities pay when those services fail. Read more...
Du 22 au 26 février 2011, le projet WASHCost a organisé au Burkina Faso une grande rencontre de la Recherche. La trentaine de participants à cette rencontre sont venus du Burkina Faso, du Ghana, de l’Inde, du Mozambique et des Pays Bas. L’objectif de la rencontre a été, entre autres, de capitaliser... Read more...
Dans le cadre de la recherche à l’échelle nationale, l’équipe du projet WASHCost Burkina Faso a organisé une collecte de données au mois d’août 2010. Cette collecte de données appelée collecte de la saison pluvieuse fait suite à celle organisée en saison sèche de Mars à mai 2010. Elle a couvert l’... Read more...
The WASHCost India team has recently published an article regarding key issues facing community members and their need for better governed WASH services. Read more...
Denis ZOUNGRANA est enseignant-chercheur à la Fondation 2iE (Institut International d’Ingénierie de l’Eau et de l’Environnement) localisée à Ouagadougou au Burkina Faso. Il est chargé des cours d’approvisionnement en eau potable. Ces cours intègrent aussi bien la gestion de la demande que la... Read more...
Senior Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar has joined hands with NDTV and Coca Cola to improve sanitation in rural India through the “Support My School” campaign which was launched in India at the end of January 2011. Read more...
The government of Nepal is all set to construct girl-friendly toilets in 5,500 community schools, or almost one in six schools throughout the country to enroll more girl students in the schools. Read more...
Inadequate sanitation costs India US$ 53.8 billion, which is equivalent to 6.4 per cent of India’s GDP in 2006, according to a new report from the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP). Read more...