In the last ten years, Mozambique undertook major reforms in water provision in rural and urban areas. These reforms are central to promoting sustainable water provision and to promoting equity. Read more...
“Government has an unavoidable role to play towards sustainable water services at scale in Ghana, as the only actor with the legitimacy to lead development of an agreed framework for service delivery”, says Mrs Vida Duti, Country Director of IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre in Ghana. Read more...
Sustaining sanitation is much more expensive than building latrines. The 20-year cost of sustaining a basic level sanitation service per person in WASHCost research areas is anywhere from 5-20 times the cost per person of building the latrine in the first place. Read more...
Amelie Dube, programme officer at IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, discusses the efforts of embedding the life-cycle cost approach at local level in relation to sanitation in Burkina Faso. Read more...
IRC Ghana, in conjunction with major stakeholders in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector in Ghana, is considering various innovative ways of financing for Capital Maintenance Expenditure (CapManEx) for WASH facilities. Read more...
“We want non-functionality of water systems to drastically reduce from the current level of about 30% to as low as 5% by the next decade”. This according to Naa Baga II, Chairman of the Direct Support Cost Committee, will only happen, if challenges with Direct Support Cost are addressed thoroughly. Read more...
Do you want to learn more about the life-cycle cost approach and how it can be applied to provide WASH services that last? Have you read our latest publications on costing sanitation services? Read more...
Vera van der Grift, IRC Information Officer interviewed Alana Potter, IRC Senior programme officer on how the life-cycle costs approach is being applied to the hygiene-related work of IRC’s WASHCost and partners. Read more...
On Monday 15 October the first group of 150 participants started the beta version of the Costing Sustainable Services online course for WASH sector professionals. Read more...
IRC Ghana has organised a Life-Cycle Cost Approach (LCCA) training for participants at the Mole Conference XXIII. The main message brought by facilitator Dr Nyarko, country director for WASHCost Ghana, was the need to properly budget for activities throughout the life-time of a system and he... Read more...
Participants at the MOLE XXIII Conference have called for the establishment of a national water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) fund to finance capital maintenance of facilities to ensure sustainability. This is because communities are not able to finance capital maintenance activities on their own... Read more...
IRC Ghana has organised a Life-Cycle Cost Approach (LCCA) training for participants at the MOLE XXIII. The training was in collaboration with the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, WASHCost Project Ghana and the Coalition of NGOs in Water and Sanitation (CONIWAS). Read more...
Rural water services in Ghana, particularly those provided by the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA), are typically seen as responding primarily to the need for good quality drinking water. It is with this in mind that the basic service level of 20 litres of water per person per day of... Read more...
This Briefing Note presents findings on actual access to water services by users in small towns and rural communities, and analyses this access with respect to poverty. Read more...
Rural water coverage has been increasing steadily but there are concerns with high levels of non-functional water point systems fitted with handpumps. Read more...
WASHCost Briefing Note No. 5 presents findings on access to sanitation services in rural and small towns in Ghana using the Life-Cycle Costs Approach (LCCA) developed by WASHCost for the water, sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector. Read more...
