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Akatsi District Assembly has taken action to address major failures of rural water services in its area, including broken pumps, missing management teams and lack of water quality testing. The district has approved a programme of action and a budget to support it, demonstrating that it has learned... Read more...
Cost of water and sanitation services in Nkwanta in the Bosomtwe District of Ashanti Region, Ghana Read more...
Find out how different organisations around the world are using the life-cycle costs approach. Read more...
Dans le milieu rural l'eau c'est l'affaire des femmes depuis toujours. Ce sont elles qui ravitaillent en eau leurs familles pour les besoins domestiques. Les coûts liés à l'approvisionnement sont également à leur charge. Mais leur faiblesse économique les empêche de s'approvisionner de façon... Read more...
On 25 January 2013, Kwabena Nyarko, on behalf of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC), presented concepts of the life-cycle costs approach and findings from the scoping mission for WASHCost to expand into Sierra Leone. Read more...
PPDA waives procurement rules to assist HPMAs. Read more...
Pétrolia entendait effectuer un forage exploratoire du puits Haldimand no 4 à la mi-janvier mais en a été empêchée par l'adoption de la réglementation sur la protection de l'eau potable adopté en décembre dernierde. Read more...
Le cours gratuit en ligne ( en anglais - "Costing Sustainable Service") commencera le lundi 4 février 2013. Vous pouvez vous inscrire jusqu’au vendredi 1er février 2013. Ce cours, en anglais, a été développé pour aider les gouvernements, les ONG, les donateurs et toute personne qui travaillent sur... Read more...
Cost of water and sanitation services in Jankpariba in the East Gonja District, Ghana Read more...
Cost of water and sanitation services in Edwenase in the Bosomtwe District of Ashanti Region, Ghana Read more...
Asset management and financial planning for life-cycle costs are two of the most critical systemic failure points in water service delivery, according to Triple-S’ Qualitative Document Analysis (QDA). Triple-S’ QDA is a way to assess whether the rural water sector is moving from building systems... Read more...
The Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN) is coordinating a three week e-discussion on water point mapping, entitled “From data to decision making”. The e-discussion will take place between 21 January and 8 February 2013. Read more...
L’express du Faso a publié une lettre ouverte de deux habitants de la région de Dafra, près de Bobo demandant aux autorités locales coutumières et administratives de tout mettre en œuvre pour sauver le site sacré de Dafra de la pollution aquatique. Read more...
This publication summarises in bullet points some of the main messages that have emerged from this innovative project. One of the insights has been the need to link expenditure to the (low) service levels that exist today in rural and peri-urban areas. This evidence base can guide those who bring... Read more...
O presente documento resume, em forma de pontos, algumas das principais mensagens que surgiram a partir deste projecto inovador. Uma das ideias foi a necessidade de vincular as despesas aos níveis (baixos) de serviços que hoje são prestados nas zonas rurais e peri-urbanas. Esta base de evidências... Read more...
As part of the symposium pack, all registered participants from the IRC Symposium 2013: Monitoring Sustainable WASH Service Delivery will receive a free copy of the October 2012 edition of “Waterlines”, focusing on WASH sector monitoring. For further info on the content of the publication, please... Read more...
Avec le soutien financier du réseau WIN, le Partenariat national de l'eau du Bénin (PNE-Bénin) en collaboration avec le Réseau des Journalistes du Bénin pour l'Eau et l'Assainissement (RJBEA), a organisé une formation au profit des femmes et hommes des médias et des acteurs des Organisations de la... Read more...
Information scan on WASH unit costs and financial planning and budgeting This study: "Information scan on WASH unit costs and financial planning and budgeting of the Water and Sanitation Sector in Uganda" presents an overview of the income and expenditure flows in the Ugandan rural water and... Read more...
Catarina Fonseca’s PowerPoint about LCCA has been a big hit with country programs. She has effectively and creatively simplified a very important message about sustainability. Because of this presentation, water professionals in the region are eager to learn how they can use LCCA in their programs. Read more...
Professor Tanvi Nagpal teaches the Graduate Seminar: Delivering services in developing countries at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. She uses WASHCost to help her students understand the long-term costs associated with sustainable service delivery. Read more...