Tamale, the Northern Regional capital of Ghana has hosted the final in the series of Life Cycle Cost Approach (LCCA) training for selected districts in three regions of Ghana. The training is to build the capacity of the relevant technical staff involved in budgeting and planning for water,... Read more...
WASHCost Ghana supports the Sector Wide Approach (SWAp) development process and the Sector Strategic Development Plan (SSDP) to have the Life Cycle Costs Approach (LCCA) embedded in the WASH service delivery. Read more...
WASHTech project is using cost components of LCCA in the financial indicators for validating WASH technologies. 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...
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...
This paper is about the costs of providing direct and indirect support to rural water service provision and provides an overview of the features such... Read more...
Briefing note with key findings on the comparison of the financial costs of a range of traditional and improved latrines and the quality of service... Read more...
Could lack of definition be undermining the impact of effective but costly support? Read more...
“I love what I do as an area mechanic because in my own small way I ensure that community boreholes are constantly working, providing regular supply of water to the people to improve their standards of living and their health.” Read more...
WASH views in the Abono community, Ghana 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...