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Este video presenta el enfoque de costos del ciclo de vida y el motivo por el cual se desarrolló. Ofrece además una explicación de los principales componentes de los costos de agua y saneamiento en áreas rurales y periurbanas.
El video fue producido en el marco del proyecto WASHCost.
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Financing Post-Construction Support (direct support)", is a video documentary which explores various options and opportunities for post construction support for water and sanitation facilities in Ghana. It draws largely on efforts by two of IRC Ghana's programmes, the Triple-S and WASHCost projects in facilitating sector dialogue and innovations to addresses the situation.
This video was produced in collaboration with the Ghana Watsan Journalists Network.
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This twenty minute feature film looks into the sustainability issues of rural and peri-urban water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services and how lack of planning for operation and maintenance in the end lead to waste of investments.
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Sustaining water facilities in Ghana's rural areas is challenging. Villages are in charge of repairs, but often don't have the money for it.
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The costs and benefits of hygiene promotion are difficult to measure. WASHCost and its partners compared cost data of different interventions in Ghana, Mozambique, Burkina Faso and India to come to an analysis of the cost-effectiveness of interventions.
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WASHCost Mozambique managed to calculate the estimated total costs for building a traditional latrine. The cost data shows that families are massively contributing to improving public health. The data also shows that promotion of hygiene and sanitation is really worth the effort.
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The life-cycle cost approach (LCCA) bringing us closer to WASH services that last. This short animation explains what the life-cycle cost components are and how to measure service, taking into account the indicators of quantity, quality, accessibility and reliability
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Coordinator, Snehalatha, explains how WASHCost (India) will show the Government of India that collecting data on costs and service levels will strengthen their National Rural Water Supply Guidelines.
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Introducing the WASHCost Calculator and the life-cycle costs approach. Check http://www.washcost.org for more information.
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In India, 4 billion dollars are annually invested in the rural drinking water sector. Hand pumps, pipes and overhead systems are supplied. But in many villages, sufficient clean drinking water is still far from being an everyday reality. The WASHCost India team gathered data on government investments in water, sanitation and hygiene in 187 villages. The data is used so that government can do proper planning for each of the budget components, against the available funds.
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