La sécurité de l’eau, la sécurité climatique, la sécurité énergétique et la sécurité alimentaire sont devenues des mots à la mode concernant le discours global de sécurité. On prévoit que dans les prochaines décennies, les éléments clés de l’insécurité de … Read more...
Les candidatures pour les Prix Impact 2013 sont maintenant ouvertes ! Date de clôture des candidatures : lundi 12 Novembre 2012, à 13h GMT Nous sommes très heureux d’annoncer le lancement des Prix Impact 2013, qui récompensent des organisations exceptionnelles travaillant … Read more...
Après vingt ans d’intervention au Burkina Faso à travers différents partenaires – tels que Eau-Vive, WaterAid, Eau et assainissement pour l’Afrique EAA/ WSA – l’IRC Centre International de l’Eau et de l’Assainissement, inaugure officiellement ce lundi 17 septembre, à Ouagadougou, sa représentation... Read more...
Après vingt ans d’intervention au Burkina Faso à travers différents partenaires - tels que Eau-Vive, WaterAid, Eau et assainissement pour l’Afrique EAA/ WSA - l’IRC Centre International de l’Eau et de l’Assainissement, inaugure officiellement ce lundi 17 septembre, à Ouagadougou, sa représentation... Read more...
UNICEF together with the partners (including WASHCost) and the government has undertaken budget analyses of the water and sanitation sector. It shows that the weight of the water and sanitation sector is only 2.2%. Furthermore, it reveals that 80% of the budget comes from aid. The document raises... Read more...
IRC will host an information session during the 2012 Water and Health Conference about bringing WASHME to a larger audience. Read more...
Understanding the full life-cycle costs of (rural) WASH services is a big step towards increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of investments in the Ugandan WASH sector, which have become scarcer over the past year. Read more...
As a first step to introduce the life-cycle cost approach in Uganda, the Fontes Foundation Uganda with support from IRC, analysed how the Uganda rural WASH sector is financed. The new proposal for implementing the life-cycle costs approach, highlights the current and complex financing system of the... Read more...
La ONG "Give to Colombia" implementará varios proyectos piloto que servirán como modelos para el abastecimiento de agua en el sector rural y el programa de manejo de aguas residuales en Colombia. Read more...
Vera van der Grift, IRC Information Officer gives examples of how the life-cycle costs approach has been taken up by global level actors. From international donors to regional lending banks, WASH sector actors are thinking about the importance of financing asset management and capital replacement... Read more...
The new budget brief by FDC and UNICEF analyses budget allocations for water and sanitation in Mozambique. The report identifies the disproportion between capital expenditure and running costs, as well as how external capital expenditure is used for covering running costs. Read more...
The Sanitation Marketing (SanMark) Community of Practice is a WASH Reference Group initiative supported by the AusAID Innovations Fund and managed by WaterAid Australia. The website provides information on SanMark webinars and in-country training events, and allows visitors to submit questions and... Read more...
SWASH+ is an action-research and advocacy project focused on increasing the scale, impact and sustainability of school water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions in Kenya. Read more...
What if resources from all projects in a district were brought together? What if in addition to constructing water systems we also planned and financed for its operation and maintenance? The following story is a fantasy. It is about a fictitious somewhere in the developing world, and what happened... Read more...
Check out Tessa Livingstone's disturbing new video on the crisis of water supply. Why, after $360 million of investment do nearly a billion people still lack healthy water? Why do the wells, pumps and pipes, installed lovingly by donors across the world, fail time and time again? And who now has... Read more...
One of the most quoted WASH statistics was recently “downgraded”. For every $1 invested in water and sanitation, not $8 but “only” $4 is returned in economic returns through increased productivity. This recalculation, says WHO, is mainly a result of higher investment cost estimates and the more... Read more...
This is a photo story about Bilkis Begum a single mother of five who has installed a toilet in her house. She was able to do this with the help of the BRAC WASH programme which gives out subsidies to the hardcore poor for installing a twin pit latrine. Read more...
Une étude publiée par un groupe de 40 anciens dirigeants internationaux, auquel appartiennent Bill Clinton et Nelson Mandela, sonne l’alarme : d’ici 2025, la quantité d’eau disponible sur la Terre ne sera plus suffisante pour satisfaire les besoins de tous les hommes. Read more...
O objectivo deste documento da WASHCost Moçambique é analisar a relação entre os valores dos contratos assinados pelo Governo no ano 2011 e o valor final pago no final do contrato. Read more...
Análise dos custos de construção e manutenção de infra-estruturas de saneamento em alguns Bairros de Maputo. Read more...