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...
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...