There is no question that modern water and sanitation services are drivers to development. And it is the wealth generated by those services that will make them sustainable. Read more...
What will rural water supply look like in the future? And will it include the handpump or are there viable, and preferable, options? Read more...
Financing the life-cycle cost gap: does it make a difference? Read more...
IRC will present its WASHCost calculator at a fair showcasing innovations in the sanitation sector. Read more...
Radical changes in government financing show a major shift in Dutch development policy. Read more...
Improving aid effectiveness across the WASH sector is a key aim of IRC. Read more...
3rd Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) High Level Meeting (HLM) to be held Friday 11 April 2014. Read more...
IRC publie une étude sur « le coût d'approvisionnement en eau par PMH au Sahel ». Read more...
Looking at the Alorsekope community's water supply situation in Ghana. Read more...
Stress of water-fetching reduced with coupon scheme. Read more...
Water for People (WfP) determines that microfinance helps release public funds to reach the poorest. Read more...
Free courses to help plan and budget sustainable water sanitation and hygiene services. Read more...
Using real data, we look at how the WASHCost calculator can be used in practice in India. Read more...
Ce blog vous donne les dernières nouvelles sur le calculateur WASHCost, un outil intuitif et dynamique des coûts à long terme pour l’évaluation des services d’eau, d’assainissement et d’hygiène. Read more...
High breakdown rates of systems in rural Burkina Faso are the visible results of still poorly functioning water supply services. But in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's capital, WASHCost found an example of how the water sector could be organized, by looking at the model of ONEA water company which is... Read more...
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. Read more...
This twenty minute feature film looks into the sustainability issues of rural and peri-urban water, sanitation and hygiene services Read more...
Le projet WASHCost était un projet de recherche-action d'une durée de cinq ans (2008-2012) qui a eu pour objectif principal de quantifier les coûts à long terme des services d'approvisionnement en eau potable, d'hygiène et d'assainissement (AEPHA) en milieux rural et urbain au Burkina-Faso, au... Read more...
Many rural water systems in Ghana fail prematurely. This is estimated to be around 30 percent at any given point in time. Sometimes, these failures are attributed to a lack of clearly defined roles and responsibilities for sector actors and institutions. It is often the case that, once water... Read more...
IRC has published a research document on the cost, performance and regulation of water services in small towns, in Burkina Faso. This research applies the Life-Cycle Cost Approach and the Service Delivery Approach to assess and compare the cost and the performance of water services provided by... Read more...