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...
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...
Snehalatha Sreedhar, Coordinator of WASHCost India, explains how the WASHCost will work with the Government on how to better contribute to national rural water supply guidelines. Read more...
During the RWSN Forum 2011 in Kampala, Patrick Moriarty took time to explain why the impact of IRC's international initiatives will take at least three to five years to realise. Read more...
WASHCost Project Director, Catarina Fonseca discusses how the life-cycle costs approach is making a splash in the water sector and what work still needs to be done. Read more...
Planning and budgeting for recurrent annual expenditure is a key challenge for sustainable service delivery. To assist with the analysis of recurrent costs to keep a system running, the life-cycle cost approach uses ‘building blocks’ to visualise and analyse these costs. Read more...
Briefing note describing the life-cycle costs approach and why it was developed. Read more...
The water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector has limited collective memory of costs and commitments. In addressing that, we saw that publication of simple contract data triggered a vigorous discussion on unit costs. Read more...
Could lack of definition be undermining the impact of effective but costly support? Read more...
Sustainability of water and sanitation systems is under threat when beneficairies fail to pay for use. Community members want facilities but are not ready to pay tariff to ensure the availability of funds for their servicing and maintenance. WASHCost Ghana looks at two communities where toilet and... Read more...