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News from the project
Making good on our promises: clean water for a healthy world
“Clean Water for a Healthy World” was the theme of World Water Day on March 22. This is about sustaining water services for people through the whole life-cycle of a water system so it does not just stop when the guarantee on the pump runs out. The life-cycle of a system sees it through all its needs for repairs, replacements, expansion and changes. It is a sort of life-long care that leads to a healthy service and healthy people.
WASHCost global data meeting kicked off
The meeting, which brings together water and sanitation researchers from Ghana, Mozambique, India, Burkina Faso and the Netherlands, seeks to harmonize the way data in WASHCost is organized, coded, stored and shared.
Lessons from 18 months knowledge sharing and IT within WASHCost
Slowly but surely the approach chosen, methods and tools used and efforts made within the WASHCost project on knowledge sharing, information management, communication and IT use start to bear fruits and get recognition.
Event: Costs, finances and accountability for sustainable WASH services
IRC will be organising a symposium called Pumps, Pipes and Promises - Costs, Finances and Accountability for Sustainable WASH services from 15 -18 November 2010 in The Hague, the Netherlands. You can find more details on the IRC website.
WASHCost research teams prepare to launch large scale data survey
The WASHCost project is gearing up for a massive effort in data collection in 2010 to address key cost issues to improve service delivery on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). A meeting of the research teams from Burkina Faso, Ghana, India and Mozambique was held in Maputo, Mozambique, from 2-7 November 2009 together with the Netherlands team based in The Hague. The meeting considered lessons from the testing phase of research and set plans for detailed data collection at scale and for embedding WASHCost in the planning and budgeting processes within countries and internationally.
Cost information is key to advocacy of sustainable water and sanitation services
According to Clarissa Brocklehurst, Head of Water, Environment and Sanitation Section, UNICEF is starting to look into the full life-cycle cost in order to justify investments as other sectors do (health and education). WASHCost co-convened a session at the Stockholm World Water Week with organisations looking into costs and benefits of Water and Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) interventions. The conclusion from diverse studies shows the difficulty of accessing cost information.
WASHCost Updates
The WashCost Update is a newsletter from the WASHCost Project that researches the life-cycle costs of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in rural and peri-urban areas in four countries.New Updates will be published occasionally based on both international and country news from Burkina Faso, Ghana, Andhra Pradesh (India), and Mozambique. If you would like to be kept up to date with the latest developments around life-cycle costs and the WASHCost project, please send an email to washcost@irc.nl with your contact details and the subject “subscribe”.
