Instead of simply counting beneficiaries, Water for People uses sustainability as their measure of success. Read more...
UNICEF's sustainability checklist looks at institutional, social, technical and financial indicators to evaluate the sustainability of rural water supply projects. Read more...
The long-term sustainability of investments in rural water has long been a problem. There can be no single blueprint for institutional frameworks, policies, service delivery models and technologies. What works in one place, doesn’t necessarily work in another. However, we do know from long... Read more...
The latest trend in Dutch politics is to label anything of parties of another political colour as hobbyism. Read more...
Plan International's global review of their expenditures on water supply and sanitation takes into account the cost of implementation, software components and post-construction support. Read more...
The concept of ‘water-person-years’ (WPY) is a new way of measuring the impact of investments. Assessing investments in WPY over a defined period of time, allows for a more efficient allocation of resources, and calls for a rethinking of the current development approach. Measuring in WPY is... Read more...
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...
How do you set a tariff for water in a small town in a developing country, so that people can afford to pay and there is enough money to sustain the service? Lamisi Dabire from Triple-S Ghana asks the Akatsi Water and Sanitation Board, in the Volga Region, Ghana.
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