Lifecycle costs
The cost of handpump water supply services in the Sahel
A new IRC- Triple-S/GLOWS/WA-WASH research paper analyses the absolute and relative value of each cost component of a water service (capital investment, operating costs, rehabilitation cost, support costs) and looks into each component cost drivers. The effective expenditures on 842 handpumps composing 192 rural water services are compared to the national guidelines available in Burkina […]
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WASHfunders.org
This portal was launched in October 2011 by the US Foundation Center as a collaborative platform for philanthropic foundations that fund water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) projects around the world. The centre piece is an interactive map showing which foundation funds what where. Currently projects from hundreds of foundations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates […]
Liberia: extra US$ 450 million needed to rebuild water and sanitation sector
Reblogged from WASH news Africa: Liberia will need to bridge a US$ 450 million funding gap to achieve the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) targets that it set for itself in 2017. Liberia unveiled a five-year US$ 600 million investment plan to rebuild its WASH sector on 7 February 2013. The sector is still recovering […]
Towards sustainable water services in La Paz, Bolivia
Reblogged from WASH news Latin America and Caribbean: A Dutch-funded project aims to bring piped drinking water to peri-urban neighbourhoods of the Bolivian capital La Paz. What will determine its success? Is it the inhabitants’ willingness and ability to pay for improved water services? No, the biggest threat to the sustainability of the project is […]
Africa: AMCOW gets US$ 2 million Gates grant to build national sanitation capacities
Reblogged from Sanitation Updates: The African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW) has been awarded a US$ 2 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help countries build capacities for sanitation policy development, monitoring and advocacy. AMCOW will use the 3-year grant for: technical guidance and training to four fragile counties to develop and […]
Financing sanitation in Sub-Saharan Africa [publication]
This guide provides highly practical decision-making tools for identifying the type of financing mechanisms to be implemented for on-site sanitation and small-piped sewerage systems. The authors caution that the costs provided in the publication are for illustrative purposes only and do not reflect the wide variety of situations and practices encountered in the different countries in […]
Sustaining sanitation services costs 5-20 times more than building a latrine
Reblogged from Sanitation Updates: Sustaining sanitation is much more expensive than building latrines. The 20-year cost of sustaining a basic level sanitation service per person in certain countries is anywhere from 5-20 times the cost per person of building the latrine in the first place. This is one of the key findings on costing sustainable sanitation […]
External funding for WASH in Schools does not necessarily undermine national & local commitment
Reblogged from Sanitation Updates: A narrow majority of participants in an e-debate did not think that external funding for WASH in Schools undermines national and local commitment. From 1 – 12 October 2012, 15 participants discussed the issue of external funding in the second of three e-debates inspired by questions asked during the implementation of […]
Sanitation surcharges collected through water bills: a way forward for financing pro-poor sanitation?
Reblogged from Sanitation Updates: Market-driven models for sanitation in low-income areas are of unquestionable importance, but there is broad consensus that the market needs to be supported by some sort of public revenue stream. One approach to revenue generation is to include a sanitation surcharge within water bills. This Discussion Paper is a situation review […]
WASH by numbers: the latest on cost benchmarks, economic returns and handwashing
Reblogged from WASH News International: One of the most quoted WASH statistics was recently “downgraded”. For every $1 invested in water and sanitation, not $8 but “only” $4 is returned in economic returns through increased productivity. This recalculation [1], says the World Health Organization, is mainly a result of higher investment cost estimates and the […]
Tender: Review of Water and Sanitation Projects in Sri Lanka [deadline 12 October]
Danida wants to contract an experienced team of consultants for review of water and sanitation projects in Sri Lanka funded by Danida Business Finance (previously Danida Mixed Credit) during 2003 – 2012. The review includes the following projects: 1) Colombo Sewerage Rehabilitation Project, 2) Towns South of Kandy, Water Supply Project, 3) Greater Kurunegala, Water […]
