On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 a session was being held on financing WASH services - "Making services last forever: financing sanitation and hygiene behaviour change in low income areas".
Published on: 29/06/2011
Financing Sanitation Session (outline)
Making services last forever: financing sanitation and hygiene behaviour change in low income areas
T9 Wednesday 10:30-13:30
Room: Garden 1
At present, financing mechanisms for sanitation in low income areas focus on one-off capital expenditure at the project implementation phase. Increasingly, many countries only finance either the software or the hardware components of sanitation interventions. There is wide evidence that existing financial approaches lead to non-use of latrines and falling back to open defecation practices. The problem is even more challenging in highly dense poor urban areas. Likewise, one of the lessons learned has been that hygiene behaviour changes require more of a service than a once-off intervention, requiring support over time.
In this session, different organisations will present good practices for financing post-construction activities and lessons learned for providing services to low income areas in peri-urban regions and rapidly growing small towns.
Friday Seminar on Life-Cycle Costs, Friday 22 July 2011 (outline)
Costing Sustainable Services: Introducing the life-cycle cost approach (Part 1)
Friday 09:00 – 12:30
The life-cycle cost approach consists of a methodology that has been developed for costing sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services by assessing life-cycle costs and comparing them against levels of service provided. Life-cycle costs refer to the costs of ensuring adequate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services to a specific population in a determined geographical area - not just for a few years but indefinitely. These costs include the construction and maintenance of systems in the short and longer term: the need for hardware and software, operation and maintenance, capital maintenance, the cost of capital, source protection and the need for direct and indirect support, including training, planning and institutional pro-poor support. The life cycle cost approach is used by governments, investors, donors and users to plan for sustainable and appropriate levels of sanitation service and to keep the service quality from slipping back to lower levels.
In this half day seminar, we will focus on the use of the life-cycle costs approach for sanitation and hygiene building on experiences in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Andhra Pradesh (India) and Mozambique. We will introduce the principles and components of the step by step methodology. Lessons learned from collecting cost data at household, regional and national level will be shared together with preliminary findings from the WASHCost project and other organizations applying the methodology. Participants are encouraged to explore how to start using the life-cycle cost approach in their own work.
Costing Sustainable Services: Introducing the life-cycle cost approach (Part 2 / Optional seminar)
Friday 14:00-17:30
In the afternoon, participants can continue with the optional afternoon seminar more in depth sessions on how to apply the life-cycle cost approach. Questions that will be addressed are:
- What are the minimum data needs and how are they determined?
- Which data collection tools can be used?
- How can costs and service levels be analysed to draw conclusions?
To attend the afternoon seminar, participants must have participated in the morning seminar. Further information is also made available on the WASHCost website.
