India (Andhra Pradesh)
WASHCost India is being implemented in the state of Andhra Pradesh. During the last twenty-five years Andhra Pradesh has been at the forefront of developing and piloting innovative approaches to WASH service delivery and watershed development. WASHCost India aims to build on this accumulated knowledge and expertise. Working in close cooperation with the Department of Rural Water Supply and Sanitation, the lead partner for WASHCost India is the Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS). The other two partners are the Watershed Support Services and Activities Network (WASSAN) and the Livelihoods and Natural Resource Management Institute (LNRMI).
WASHCost India cartoon - February 2010
This is the February cartoon in the WASHCost India calendar 2010. It deals with the important and often forgotten issue of maintenance.
Interviews
The WASHCost India project conducts interviews with various players in the WASH sector on issues of relevance. The Process Documentation Team interacts with policy makers, village leaders, project managers, citizens, opinion makers, donors and captures their current thinking on various issues related to the WASH sector - including costs, governance, policies and practices.
Learning alliances
WASHCost India looks at learning alliance as a means of spreading the lessons learned during the project period and believes that these learning processes require a different set of norms, support systems. This space gives updates on the processes and developments related to learning alliances in India.
Good practices in WASH
The WASHCost project analyzes the life-cycle costs of various WASH services. The Resource, Infrastructure, Demand and Access (RIDA) framework is the basis for this analysis. The WASHCost India team explores various good practices in the WASH sector in India as part of the field work and process documentation. These good practices are presented here in the form of case studies.
