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Planning and decision making processes for sustainable rural water supply, sanitation and hygiene in Ghana

Innovating in learning alliances : action research concepts and practice

Arrangements and cost of providing support to rural water service providers

Published on: 20/01/2012

This paper is about the costs of providing direct and indirect support to rural water service provision and provides an overview of the features such... Read more...

A multi dimensional framework for costing sustainable water and sanitation services in low-income settings : lessons from collecting actual life cycle costs for rural and peri-urban areas of Ghana, Burkina Faso, Mozambique and Andhra Pradesh

WASHCost theory of change: reforms in the water sector and what they mean for the use of unit costs

Life-cycle costs approach : costing sustainable services

Published on: 14/12/2011

Briefing note describing the life-cycle costs approach and why it was developed. Read more...

Beyond the project cycle

Regional forum on local water governance "water is everybody's business" : forum rationale and recommendations for policy and practice : background document 1

Life-cycle costs approach : costing sustainable services

Quantifying the cost of community water supply services : case of Bosomtwe-Atwima-Kwanwoma District (BAKD), Ghana

Costs of delivering water service in rural areas and small towns in Ghana : paper presented at the IRC symposium ‘ Pumps, Pipes and Promises: Costs, Finances and Accountability for Sustainable WASH Services' in The Hague, The Netherlands from 16 - 18 Nove

Use of cost information in planning and decision making in rural water and sanitation service delivery in Ghana

Published on: 17/02/2011

This study examined the planning process for delivering sustainable WASH services in Ghana, particularly with respect to the existing and potential... Read more...

Cost and financing of rural and small towns water services delivery in Ghana

What’s in a service? : using water service ladders in life-cycle cost analysis

Decentralisation and the use of cost information in delivering WASH services

Providing sustainable water services at scale :background paper presented at the International Symposium on Rural Water Services "Providing Sustainable Water Services at Scale", 13-15 April 2010, Kampala, Uganda,

Report of the international symposium on rural water services : providing sustainable water services at scale, Kampala, Uganda, 13-15 April 2010

Assessing sanitation service levels

Multiple use water services for the poor : assessing the state of knowledge : final reoprt

Published on: 17/09/2010

Assessing the relative costs, benefits and poverty impacts of multiple-use approaches (MUS) over single-use approaches and evaluating the potential... Read more...

Ladders for assessing and costing water service delivery

Published on: 12/08/2010

This working paper introduces the concept of service levels, grouped as sequential rungs on a ladder, as a way of differentiating broad and... Read more...