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WASHCost Burkina Faso La mobilisation du financement est un enjeu sensible pour le développement et la gestion des services AEPHA (Eau, assainissement et hygiène) pour tous. Deux sessions complémentaires ont abordé ce sujet dans le 6ème Forum Mondiale de l’eau - Marseille 2012. Read more...
O sector de Água, Saneamento e Higiene – ASH possui informação limitada relativa aos custos e seu historial. Para responder a este défice, o WASHCost tem vindo a publicar vários artigos relativos aos custos e analise do Pec zonal em Moçambique. Esta informação está neste momento a ser usada para... Read more...
O esforço que as pessoas empreendem para contornar as dificuldades da modernidade é notável, principalmente em relação a aspectos relacionados com o saneamento nas cidades moçambicanas. A foto documenta que, para além da falta de meios financeiros, ainda se pode ser criativo, inventando e... Read more...
Financing water and sanitation improvements for the very poor remains a major challenge over large areas of the globe. In a dynamic session at the World Water Forum in Marseille participants were asked to choose the best solution from 6 proposed by IRC and WSUP in their paper 6 Key Solutions for... Read more...
O filme foi feito no distrito de Mecufi, em 2010, aquando da pesquisa do Projecto WASHcost. Neste filme fica a se saber como os pesquisadores interagiam com as autoridades e comunidades rurais. Read more...
Water users in Lira district, Northern Uganda have adopted a new way of ensuring regular payment of user fees and continued functionality of their sources. From the funds collected in monthly fees, they have started a loan scheme for users. Many community members who have benefited from the... Read more...
Inicia este Março o levantamento sobre os Custos de esvaziamento das latrinas avançadas nas zonas periurbanas da Cidade de Maputo.Os Bairros de Albasine, Laulane, Mafalala e Magoanine B são os abrangidos pelo levantamento Read more...
WASHCost Ghana supports the Sector Wide Approach (SWAp) development process and the Sector Strategic Development Plan (SSDP) to have the Life Cycle Costs Approach (LCCA) embedded in the WASH service delivery. Read more...
WASHTech project is using cost components of LCCA in the financial indicators for validating WASH technologies. Read more...
UNICEF is developing and testing the “Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Bottleneck Analysis Tool (WASH-BAT)”. This tool integrates, among others “the approaches and concepts of other recent tools and initiatives in the WASH sector. Read more...
The GLAAS questionnaire on aid disbursements for WASH includes a question on maintaining and improving service levels. Read more...
In partnership with IRC and the Rainwater Harvesting Implementation Network, WASHCost studied the historical trends and drivers of adopting Rain Water Harvesting (RWH). Detailed comparisons are made between life-cycle costs of RWH systems and the life-cycle costs of other water supply systems. Read more...
Planners and decision makers expect to know what a technology will cost and what it will deliver, including the traditional technologies used for rainwater harvesting. But collecting and analysing these costs, even for age old technologies, is not straightforward since documentation of actual costs... Read more...
The Government of India has announced a 40%-60% increase in spending on sanitation from April 2012 and says it will more than double the subsidy that goes to rural families who build a toilet at home. This is part of an effort to transform the role of sanitation in rural areas where, according to... Read more...
A inflação é responsável por diversas distorções na orçamentação. As principais distorções identificadas para o sector são: • Quando se estiver a fazer a orçamentação de qualquer projecto tem de se levar em conta as projecções inflacionárias, para reduzir ou minimizar as perdas do valor do dinheiro... Read more...
Este texto informativa pretende abrir uma discussão sobre os Custos de Capital. Quanto é que o sector paga (indirectamente) por intervenções do passado e quanto é que o sector planeia pagar no futuro? Texto escrito por Arjen Naafs e Kassie Rousseau. Read more...
This Information sheet opens the discussion on Cost of Capital. Read more...
Fontes Foundation has tracked the cost of small piped water schemes for years. According to Lucrezia Keoster from Fontes Foundation Uganda, following up on investments is important for sustainability. Showing what it will cost with the actual data and figures makes all the difference for donors... Read more...
Mr. Clement Bugase, Chief Executive of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA), announced that the CWSA is now adopting integrated cost budgeting for its facilities in order to ensure sustainability. Integrated cost budgeting is a costing system that takes into consideration the various... Read more...
WASHCost Project Ghana has published (online) the first batch of a series of Community Reports. These communities are located in the three focus districts of the WASHCost project in the Bosomtwi (Ashanti region), Ketu South (Volta region) and East Gonja (Northern region) of Ghana. Read more...