The free "Costing Sustainable Services” online course aims to assist water, sanitation and hygiene professionals around to world with applying life-cycle costing in their work and organisation. The online course can be used by sector professionals with little or no experience of life-cycle costing... Read more...
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A synthesis report produced by the Triple-S Project in Ghana on rural water service levels has affirmed international estimates of non functionality levels of about 30% of point sources. Read more...
An overview of five useful outputs published by Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) including an analysis of commitments made by developing countries, a concept note on partnership meetings and a discussion paper on political WASH dialogue at a SWA meeting. Read more...
During 5 to 23 November 2012, the Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN) will host a three-week e-discussion on the realities of accelerating self supply. Read more...
IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre has been actively involved in Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) since its initiation in 2009. Initially IRC was a member of the Interim Core Group (ICG) and since 2011 IRC is an elected member in the SWA steering committee. Read more...
Since its inception in 2009 the Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) partnership has grown to include 91 partners. Every two years, SWA organises a global High Level Meeting to address planning and institutional requirements for improving access to water and sanitation. So far SWA has organised two... Read more...
Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) provides the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector with a new platform for engagement. Recognising that countries and organisations around the world can achieve more by working together, Sanitation and Water for All provides a framework for coordinated and... Read more...
Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) is a global partnership of governments, donors, civil society and multilateral organisations. Its aim is to ensure that all people have access to basic sanitation and safe drinking water. It is particularly concerned with those countries where the needs are... Read more...
Global monitoring reports, such as the Joint Monitoring Programme for water supply and sanitation, indicate that water and sanitation coverage is increasing over time. Read more...
Building a latrine is only a first step towards an effective sanitation service. The latrine must be used, kept clean, maintained and replaced at the end of its useful life if families and communities are to benefit. The recurrent costs of keeping the latrine clean and maintained, of emptying the... Read more...
The Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN) working group on management support for rural water supplies convened in The Hague, The Netherlands on 2 to 3 October 2012, for their first thematic meeting on piped schemes. Objectives for the two days included compiling an initial set of conclusions and... Read more...
A new briefing note about Hand Pump Mechanics Associations Read more...
Government of India buys into post-construction support and service delivery issues Interview with Mekala Snehalatha, WASHCost India Read more...
A gender approach that involves husbands and wives equitably in the whole process has led to better results. Read more...
Easy to use and low-cost leaflets and catalogues can inform potential customers. Conviction comes more from interpersonal interaction. Interactions can be with promoters, suppliers, relatives and peers, including those who have already installed a toilet. A participatory process with discussions on... 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 5-20 times the cost of building the latrine in the first place. Read more...
In this interview, Vida Duti, IRC Country Director in Ghana, explains how Triple-S Ghana works at all levels in order to move from piloting in the three districts, to scaling-up. Several mechanisms have been put in place to make the leap towards scale work. Read more...
Read recent tweets on the life-cycle costs and WASHCost Read more...
La directive 2007/60/CE du Parlement et du Conseil Européen du 23 octobre 2007 sur l'évaluation et la gestion des risques d'inondation oblige les états membres à établir des cartes identifiant toutes les zones exposées aux risques d'inondation et indiquant la probabilité et les dommages potentiels... Read more...