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While the problem of poor sustainability - and the threat it poses to achieving the MDGs - may be well recognised, concrete steps for addressing it are considerably less clear. Triple-S, an IRC initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently completed a 13-country study to... Read more...
The IRC 2010 international symposium posed a series of challenges to the water and sanitation sector to improve its ability to cost and finance sustainable services – and to understand the price that communities pay when those services fail. Read more...
Du 22 au 26 février 2011, le projet WASHCost a organisé au Burkina Faso une grande rencontre de la Recherche. La trentaine de participants à cette rencontre sont venus du Burkina Faso, du Ghana, de l’Inde, du Mozambique et des Pays Bas. L’objectif de la rencontre a été, entre autres, de capitaliser... Read more...
Dans le cadre de la recherche à l’échelle nationale, l’équipe du projet WASHCost Burkina Faso a organisé une collecte de données au mois d’août 2010. Cette collecte de données appelée collecte de la saison pluvieuse fait suite à celle organisée en saison sèche de Mars à mai 2010. Elle a couvert l’... Read more...
The WASHCost India team has recently published an article regarding key issues facing community members and their need for better governed WASH services. Read more...
Denis ZOUNGRANA est enseignant-chercheur à la Fondation 2iE (Institut International d’Ingénierie de l’Eau et de l’Environnement) localisée à Ouagadougou au Burkina Faso. Il est chargé des cours d’approvisionnement en eau potable. Ces cours intègrent aussi bien la gestion de la demande que la... Read more...
Senior Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar has joined hands with NDTV and Coca Cola to improve sanitation in rural India through the “Support My School” campaign which was launched in India at the end of January 2011. Read more...
The government of Nepal is all set to construct girl-friendly toilets in 5,500 community schools, or almost one in six schools throughout the country to enroll more girl students in the schools. Read more...
Inadequate sanitation costs India US$ 53.8 billion, which is equivalent to 6.4 per cent of India’s GDP in 2006, according to a new report from the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP). Read more...
Why are so many developing countries doing so badly in providing all their citizens with good sanitation, asks Prof. Duncan Mara, University of Leeds? The technical solutions and finances are available, but aid agencies need to focus more on technical training and technical assistance. Read more...
It costs a lot of money to provide low quality water and sanitation services – more expensive technology does not always raise standards. Research in four countries has found that switching from boreholes to small piped services can triple the costs but often leaves people with the same sub-... Read more...
The way in which public funds are used to support sanitation can have widely diverging results in terms of provision of sustainable sanitation services, particularly in terms of effectiveness and equity. Read more...
The WASHCost approach is to work with locally based learning alliances to gather and share research. Read more...
The senior civil servant in charge of rural water and sanitation in the state of Andhra Pradesh has challenged WASHCost to throw “intense light” on some of the alarming problems India is facing in conserving water and delivering services to an ever growing population. Read more...
What does it cost to extend and sustain safe water and hygienic sanitation to poor communities in developing countries? Read more...
More than half of the people who live in Bogodogo, one of five metropolitan areas of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, say that the cost of water is not affordable, a survey by WaterAid shows. Nor is this just an opinion – since in fact six out of ten people lack access to decent water services. Read more...
These factsheets on microfinance for water supply services and sanitation explore and discuss microfinance for the water and sanitation sector. Read more...