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Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) provides the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector with a new platform for engagement. Recognising that countries and organisations around the world can achieve more by working together, Sanitation and Water for All provides a framework for coordinated and... Read more...
Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) is a global partnership of governments, donors, civil society and multilateral organisations. Its aim is to ensure that all people have access to basic sanitation and safe drinking water. It is particularly concerned with those countries where the needs are... Read more...
Global monitoring reports, such as the Joint Monitoring Programme for water supply and sanitation, indicate that water and sanitation coverage is increasing over time. Read more...
Building a latrine is only a first step towards an effective sanitation service. The latrine must be used, kept clean, maintained and replaced at the end of its useful life if families and communities are to benefit. The recurrent costs of keeping the latrine clean and maintained, of emptying the... Read more...
The Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN) working group on management support for rural water supplies convened in The Hague, The Netherlands on 2 to 3 October 2012, for their first thematic meeting on piped schemes. Objectives for the two days included compiling an initial set of conclusions and... Read more...
A new briefing note about Hand Pump Mechanics Associations Read more...
Government of India buys into post-construction support and service delivery issues Interview with Mekala Snehalatha, WASHCost India Read more...
A gender approach that involves husbands and wives equitably in the whole process has led to better results. Read more...
Easy to use and low-cost leaflets and catalogues can inform potential customers. Conviction comes more from interpersonal interaction. Interactions can be with promoters, suppliers, relatives and peers, including those who have already installed a toilet. A participatory process with discussions on... Read more...
Sustaining sanitation is much more expensive than building latrines. The 20-year cost of sustaining a basic level sanitation service per person in WASHCost research areas is 5-20 times the cost of building the latrine in the first place. Read more...
In this interview, Vida Duti, IRC Country Director in Ghana, explains how Triple-S Ghana works at all levels in order to move from piloting in the three districts, to scaling-up. Several mechanisms have been put in place to make the leap towards scale work. Read more...
Read recent tweets on the life-cycle costs and WASHCost Read more...
La directive 2007/60/CE du Parlement et du Conseil Européen du 23 octobre 2007 sur l'évaluation et la gestion des risques d'inondation oblige les états membres à établir des cartes identifiant toutes les zones exposées aux risques d'inondation et indiquant la probabilité et les dommages potentiels... Read more...
La sécurité de l’eau, la sécurité climatique, la sécurité énergétique et la sécurité alimentaire sont devenues des mots à la mode concernant le discours global de sécurité. On prévoit que dans les prochaines décennies, les éléments clés de l’insécurité de … Read more...
Les candidatures pour les Prix Impact 2013 sont maintenant ouvertes ! Date de clôture des candidatures : lundi 12 Novembre 2012, à 13h GMT Nous sommes très heureux d’annoncer le lancement des Prix Impact 2013, qui récompensent des organisations exceptionnelles travaillant … Read more...
Après vingt ans d’intervention au Burkina Faso à travers différents partenaires - tels que Eau-Vive, WaterAid, Eau et assainissement pour l’Afrique EAA/ WSA - l’IRC Centre International de l’Eau et de l’Assainissement, inaugure officiellement ce lundi 17 septembre, à Ouagadougou, sa représentation... Read more...
Après vingt ans d’intervention au Burkina Faso à travers différents partenaires – tels que Eau-Vive, WaterAid, Eau et assainissement pour l’Afrique EAA/ WSA – l’IRC Centre International de l’Eau et de l’Assainissement, inaugure officiellement ce lundi 17 septembre, à Ouagadougou, sa représentation... Read more...
UNICEF together with the partners (including WASHCost) and the government has undertaken budget analyses of the water and sanitation sector. It shows that the weight of the water and sanitation sector is only 2.2%. Furthermore, it reveals that 80% of the budget comes from aid. The document raises... Read more...
IRC will host an information session during the 2012 Water and Health Conference about bringing WASHME to a larger audience. Read more...
Understanding the full life-cycle costs of (rural) WASH services is a big step towards increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of investments in the Ugandan WASH sector, which have become scarcer over the past year. Read more...
