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IRC helps develop action plan to integrate gender justice in urban water supply. Read more...
A 2-week training programme to introduce Water Services that Last and Costing Sustainable Services curricula to BSc students and educational staff of the University Eduardo Mondlane - Rural Engineering School was held in March 2014. Read more...
We are delighted to announce that the WASHCost e-book, Priceless! Uncovering the real costs of water and sanitation, is available for free download on IRCWASH from September 2014. Read more...
More funding for a local government-led approach introduced in 2008 by SNV and IRC to scale up sanitation from community to district level. 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...
Triple-S, short for Sustainable Services at Scale, is an initiative to address the challenge of sustainability of rural water supplies. Read more...
Together, Mozambique's National Directorate of Water and IRC are creating a roadmap for re-envisioning how rural water services are delivered. Read more...
Financing the life-cycle cost gap: does it make a difference? Read more...
Case studies from Mozambique identify successful approaches to community-based water and sanitation services. Read more...
The results of a three-country hygiene cost effectiveness study make interesting reading. Read more...
A presentation on post-construction support for lasting WASH Services Mozambique. Read more...
A short film showing how WASHCost Mozambique calculated the costs of building a traditional latrine. Read more...
An animation illustrating the relationship between life-cycle costs and the service delivered. Read more...
IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre's WASHCost project has released an animation that has been created to help us understand how the life-cycle costs and the service delivered are connected. The life-cycle cost approach can be used to increase financial sustainability and to stop the... Read more...
Organised by : APRH - Associação Portuguesa dos Recursos Hídricos, ABRH - Associação Brasileira de Recursos Hídricos, ACRH - Associação Cabo-Verdiana de Recursos Hídricos. AQUASHARE - Associação Moçambicana dos Profissionais de Água and DNA - Departamento de Água e Saneamento The main themes of the... Read more...
We're sharing our WASHCost data on the full costs of providing water and sanitation services over their entire service life-cycle from construction to operation, rehabilitation, and eventual replacement. Detailed studies established these costs and examined how these costs relate to the level of... Read more...
Mozambique's anti-corruption agency GCCC has arrested the former director and financial administrator of the central regional office of the government’s Water Supply Investments and Assets Fund (FIPAG). José Duarte and Henriques Leonardo were expelled from FIPAG in mid-2011, but it apparently took... Read more...
In rural Mozambique, nearly 35% of water facilities are not working or in need of repair. The National Directorate of Water [DNA: Direcção Nacional de Águas] is confronting this problem by catalysing the process for sector reform. DNA adopted the service delivery approach—to essentially improve... Read more...
A policy review [1] of Dutch aid during 1990 to 2011 to improve drinking water and sanitation services in developing countries found that while millions of peole have gained access, the impact on health and sustainability was limited. The main focus of the review is on the period from 2004 when aid... Read more...
Effectiveness of Large Scale Water and Sanitation Interventions: the One Million Initiative in Mozambique , October 2011. Full-text (pdf) Chris Elbers, et al. The One Million Initiative of the Government of Mozambique aims at supplying access to clean drinking water and adequate sanitation for one... Read more...