Lifecycle costs
Ladders for assessing and costing water service delivery
Moriarty, P. … [et al.] (2011). Ladders for assessing and costing water service delivery. (WASHCost working paper; no. 2). 2nd ed. The Hague, The Netherlands, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre. iv, 19 p. : 5 fig., 5 tab. 14 ref. Download full paper This working paper introduces the concept of service levels, grouped as [...]
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Meeting the challenge of financing water and sanitation : tools and approaches
OECD (2011). Meeting the challenge of financing water and sanitation : tools and approaches. (OECD studies on water). Paris, France, OECD Publishing. 142 p. : 13 fig., 5 tab. ISBN : 9789264120525 (PDF) ; 9789264120518 (print) doi: 10.1787/9789264120525-en Order online / Look inside (free online preview) Price: €25 | $35 | £22 | ¥3200 | [...]
Patel Grand Challenge launches with competition to create world’s first “Smart Pot”
The University of South Florida’s (USF) Patel School of Global Sustainability through its Center for Global Solutions launched the first Patel Grand Challenge at the International Water Association’s Development Congress in Malaysia on 21 November 2011. The challenge invites inventors in developing nations to create a low-cost and easy-to-use water purification device that could save [...]
Financing Water and Sanitation for All in Africa, Ouagadougou Burkina Faso, 05-08 December 2011
Organised by the Centre Africain pour l’Eau Potable et l’Assainissement (CREPA), this meeting will focus on the need to improve investment in the water and sanitation sector in Africa. About 200 participants are expected from development organisations, bilateral and multi-lateral groups, civil society organisations as well as governments. The four-day meeting will include an African Workshop [...]
African Water Facility Call for Concept Notes on Sanitation Improvement for Urban Poor
The African Water Facility (AWF) has issued a Call for Concept Notes under the urban sanitation theme for the urban poor in Sub-Saharan Africa. The AWF will fund up to ten projects that promise to address the needs and to sustainably improving the sanitation situation of a densely populated urban poor community, or of a [...]
Bangladesh: govt sanitation subsidy scheme ineffective, experts say
The government’s subsidy policy for sanitation needs to be more effective and more money should be allocated if Bangladesh is to meet is target of sanitation for all’ by 2013, experts say. This is the conclusion of a study conducted among 21,121 households by the Human Development Research Centre (HDRC) with the support of WaterAid, [...]
New OECD book: Financing Water and Sanitation
A new book in the OECD Report Series looking at water and sanitation financing in both OECD and developing countries is due for publication on 31 October 2011. OECD (2011). Financing water and sanitation : challenges, approaches and tools. (OECD report series). London, UK, IWA Publishing. 115 p. (paperback). ISBN: 9781780400327 Price and ordering details [...]
DFID provides WaterAid £4.2 million annual grant over three years
The UK Department of International Development (DFID) has provided international charity WaterAid with an annual grant of £4.2 million (US$ 7.8 millon) over three years . The DFID funding will contribute towards WaterAid bringing clean water to 6.8 million people and reaching almost 10 million people with access to sanitation by 2014. The second and third [...]
WaterAid appoints The Good Agency to enhance acquisition creative
WaterAid has appointed fundraising and campaigning communications specialists The Good Agency to help it improve its donor acquisition creative. The agency has been tasked with increasing donor numbers as well as building the international NGO’s brand profile. The Good Agency will work with production partner Eye-to-eye and focus on integration across multiple channels including direct [...]
Sanitation innovation grants: USAID and Gates Foundation announce US$ 17 million WASH for Life programme
USAID and the Gates Foundation are collaborating to seek, test, and scale innovative solutions for water, sanitation, hygiene. To support promising new approaches in the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) sector, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), with co-funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is announcing WASH for Life. Over the next [...]
Reinventing the toilet: Gates Foundation launches new sanitation strategy and grants
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced the launch of their new sanitation strategy and US$ 42 million in new sanitation grants at the 2011 AfricaSan 3 conference in Kigali, Rwanda on 19 July 2011. “No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation [...]
